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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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John F. Kirby holds a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2022. (DoD photo by James K. Lee)
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A US Navy boatswain’s mate launches a US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft off the amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli in the Pacific Ocean on June 13, 2022. (US Marine Corps photo by Jackson Ricker)
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US and Ukraine flags fly at the Joint Force Headquarters in Sacramento, California, on February 22, 2023. (US Army National Guard photo by Amanda H. Johnson)
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Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on February 5, 2023. (Tyler Thompson via DVIDS)
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ICBM's in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, during a military parade on September 3, 2015. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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In Iraq on October 20, 2009. (Abdul Waqar via Flickr)
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A US Navy Sailor directs an aircraft on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on April 3, 2023. (Joseph Calabrese via DVIDS)
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A successful ballistic missile intercept launched from the Kauai Test Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, on July 31, 2009. (US Navy via DVIDS)
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Military vehicles carrying DF-17 missiles participate in a military parade in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 1, 2019, to mark the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on February 14, 2023. (Yan Yan/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
