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A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
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The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Louisiana (SSBN 743) transits Puget Sound past the Seattle skyline on February 9, 2023. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Brian G. Reynolds)
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Supporters of Niger's National Council of Safeguard of the Homeland display a French national flag with a x-mark on during a protest outside Niger and French airbase in Niamey on September 1, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
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The 10th Mountain Assault Brigade fire from Soviet-era artillery in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on September 16, 2023. (Photo by Libkos/Getty Images)
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy during the FOX Business Republican Primary Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on September 27, 2023, in Simi Valley, California. (Justin Sullivan via Getty Images)
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A serviceman launches a drone during a press tour to demonstrate the integration of AI into the process of humanitarian demining in the Zhytomyr Region, northern Ukraine, on September 20, 2023. (Kirill Chubotin/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
