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Ceremonial soldiers parade during the 79th anniversary of the Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2024. (Sefa Karacan via Getty Images)
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Kim Jong Un attends a welcoming ceremony for Vladimir Putin on June 19, 2024, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian servicemen walk past a Patriot air defense system at an undisclosed area on August 4, 2024. (Sergei Supinsky via Getty Images)
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An F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson on February 4, 2025. (US Navy photo)
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Ukrainian soldiers calibrate an agricultural drone, transformed into a front-line delivery system, during a demonstration at an undisclosed location near Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, on June 14, 2025. (Florent Vergnes via Getty Images)
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Maxar satellite imagery provides a wide overview of the Fordow nuclear complex in Iran on June 27, 2025. (Maxar Technologies via Getty Images)
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Participants take part at the candlelight vigil as they hold candles at Victoria Park on June 4, 2015, in Hong Kong. (Anthony Kwan via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump takes questions from the press on the South Lawn of the White House on June 24, 2025. (Hu Yousong via Getty Images)
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United States President Donald Trump walks through the Cross Hall as he arrives for a "One, Big, Beautiful" event in the East Room of the White House on June 26, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
Experts
David Byrd
Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Ezra Cohen
Adjunct Fellow
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Jack David
Senior Fellow and Trustee
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Nikki R. Haley
Walter P. Stern Chair
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative
Jonathan Hessen
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
John Lee
Senior Fellow
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
Tod Lindberg
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Aaron MacLean
Senior Fellow
Mario Mancuso
Visiting Senior Fellow
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Brigham McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Aparna Pande
Research Fellow, India and South Asia
Dan Patt
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Robert Spalding
Senior Fellow
Koichiro Takagi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
John P. Walters
President and CEO
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
