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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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Gunners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 in the Kharkiv region on April 21, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Somewhere in North Vietnam- US Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Allen Stratton waters vegetables in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp on Christmas Day, 1968. (Bettmann via Getty Images)
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Taiwan's armed forces hold two days of routine drills to show combat readiness ahead of Lunar New Year holidays at a military base on January 11, 2023, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Annabelle Chih via Getty Images)
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Security forces reporting to Syria's transitional government patrol the streets of Dummar, during an operation to seize weapons and hunt down armed supporters of the ousted Assad leadership on January 15, 2025. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian military walk through the destruction after a large scale Russian attack on a residential complex on March 10, 2025, in Dobropillia, Ukraine. (Paula Bronstein via Getty Images)
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HMAS Sydney fires Royal Australian Navy’s first Naval Strike Missile during a long-planned, live-fire sinking exercise off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on July 17, 2024. (DVIDS)
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and US President Donald Trump hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
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Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
