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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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US Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken attends a press conference about the 2016 annual report on international religious freedom at the US Department of State August 10, 2016 in Washington, DC.
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A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing fly a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, into Japanese airspace and over the Korean Peninsula, July 30, 2017
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A nuclear-powered Type 094A Jin-class ballistic missile submarine of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy during a military exercise in the South China Sea in 2018.
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Dr. Will Roper, Director of the Strategic Capabilities Office under the Office of the Secretary of Defense, explains U.S. military's use of the Micro UAV called Perdix at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency building on March 4, 2016, in Arlingto
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Alexander Hamilton
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Seabee divers perform maintenance on undersea cables at the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii. Much of the globe's military and civilian electronic messages flow through undersea cables.
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Mourners carry the coffins of slain Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and eight others during a funeral procession in Iraq on January 4, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP via Getty Images)
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A US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone sits at Kandahar Air base in Afghanistan on January 23, 2018.
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
