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A monument to the historic battle of Guningtou, which took place in 1949, on February 3, 2021, in Kinmen, Taiwan. (Getty Images)
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A Xuanji A3 chip is pictured at the BYD booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 18, 2026. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP via Getty Images)
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A heavily damaged bridge that was hit by a US strike in southern Iran on July 18, 2026. (Getty Images)
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TikTok Is the CCP’s Most Potent Weapon of Psychological Warfare. Will Trump Stop It?
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Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Crafts (GARC) during Exercise Obangame Express 2026 in Douala, Cameroon, April 25, 2026. (Dvids)
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An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter takes off from the flight deck of Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Mason in the Arabian Sea on June 20, 2026. (US Navy)
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An “I Voted” sign points to a vote center at UCLA’s campus on June 1, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)
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A hole is visible in a damaged bridge following US air strikes carried out a day earlier in the southern Hormozgan Province, Iran, on July 17, 2026. (Getty Images)
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A view of the Presidential Palace, the venue for the NATO Summit on July 8, 2026, in Ankara, Turkey. (Getty Images)
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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
Ian Crone
Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
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
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Gil Guerra
Fellow
Nikki R. Haley
Walter P. Stern Chair
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative
Ludovic Hood
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Komei Isozaki
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
Tod Lindberg
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Mario Mancuso
Visiting Senior Fellow
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Brigham A. 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
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Aparna Pande
Senior Fellow
Dan Patt
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Tomáš Pojar
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center on Europe and Eurasia
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
David Rader
Senior Fellow
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
William Schneider
Senior Fellow
Kotaro Shiojiri
Fellow (Nonresident)
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
