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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
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Policemen survey the area where a man tried to shoot Lars Hedegaard, February 5, 2013 in Copenhagen. (CLAUS BECH/AFP/Getty Images)
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Alleged Islamic State (IS) militants stand next to an IS flag atop a hill in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, on October 6, 2014. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (C) delivers a speech as part of the annual Army Day military parade on April 18, 2014 in Tehran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Obama with Defense Secretary Hagel (3rd L), U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Odienaro (2nd L), Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Welsh (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey (R), May 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty)
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Destroyed ammunition is stored in a container during a press day at the GEKA facility on March 5, 2014 in Munster, Germany. (Nigel Treblin/Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) walks with US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Martin Indyk at Ben Gurion International Airport on January 5, 2014 in Tel Aviv. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
