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A worker produces integrated circuit products in a workshop in Weihai, Shandong Province, China, on September 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire and fugitive leader of the terrorist group al Qaeda, explains why he has declared a "jihad" or holy war against the United States on August 20, 1998 from a cave hideout somewhere in Afghanistan.
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The U.S. tests a hypersonic glide body March 19, 2020, from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.
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Sen. Joe McCarthy & his aide Roy Cohn listening intently during the Army-McCarthy hearings
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US Navy USS Donald Cook class guided missile destroyer during an exercise how simulate a humanitarian response to a powerful earthquake and significant movement of IDF vessels and foreign vessels in the Mediterranean sea
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The Long March 5 Y-4 rocket carrying the Tianwen-1 Mars probe takes off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang, Hainan Province, China, July 23, 2020.
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The authors argue that more funding should be driven by combatant commanders such as U.S. Central Command's Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, seen here boarding a UH-60 Black Hawk in Saudi Arabia in 2020.
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Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar leaves after signing an agreement with the United States during a ceremony in the Qatari capital Doha on February 29, 2020.
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
