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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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National Security and Defense
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Pakistani military personnel stand beside a Shaheen III surface-to-surface ballistic missile during a Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2017. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
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A police officer stops a car at a check point ahead of the February 25 presidential election at Awka in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria, on February 16, 2023. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping shake hands after delivering a joint statement in Moscow, on March 21, 2023. (Mikhail Tereshchenko/AFP via Getty Images)
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A display at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum shows how many nuclear weapons remain in the world on August 12, 2012. (Tim Wright via Flickr)
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A Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAV at the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology in Taichung on March 14, 2023. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden participates in a virtual bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 15, 2021, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. (Official White House via Flickr)
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The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Alaska returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay following routine operations on January 7, 2015. (US Navy photo by Rex Nelson)
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A Ukrainian tank fires during practice on the frontline of the Russia-Ukraine War in Donetsk, Ukraine, on March 29, 2023. (Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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US Army National Guard Soldiers with Battery C conduct pre-mobilization training exercise America’s Shield on May 15, 2022, at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina. (Tim Andrews via DVIDS)
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming on April 4, 2012. (R.J. Oriez via Getty Images)
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John P. Walters takes part in a debate at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2023. (Madeline Mills/Hudson Institute)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
