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Vice Adm. Lisa Franchetti, center foreground, is the Biden administration's nominee for chief of naval operations. (MCC America A. Henry via US Navy)
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Military vehicles in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on September 3, 2015, carry DF-5B intercontinental ballistic missiles during a parade commemorating the seventieth anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
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An operator carries a reusable airstrike drone called Punisher made by UA Dynamics during a test in Kyiv on August 11, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade stands outside the town of New York on the front lines of Russia's war against Ukraine on July 28, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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US Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jesse Rushing installs a 5G antenna in preparation for a 5G network demonstration at MCAGCC in Twentynine Palms, California, on August 15, 2022. (Ryan Kennelly via DVIDS)
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A Sailor signals to a naval aviator inside an F/A-18E Super Hornet before it launches off the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson on April 4, 2023. (Leon Vonguyen via DVIDS)
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Smoke rises after coup supporters set fire to the headquarters of President Mohamed Bazoum's party, the Party for Democracy and Socialism in Niger in Niamey, Niger, on July 27, 2023. (Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' movie poster is seen in Cinema City multiplex cinema in Bonarka shopping center in Krakow, Poland, on July 25, 2023. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
