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Black smoke rises from the area of Gazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow on June 18, 2026. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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A man watches a news report on North Korea's planned rocket launch at a railway station in Seoul on February 3, 2016. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, wearing his academic robes and making a speech regarding the Communist threat, March 1946. (George Skadding/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
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The flag of the European Union flies from the European Parliament information office in the European Quarter on February 25, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)
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HMAS Melbourne conducting Maritime security Operations in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. (Handout/Royal Australian Navy)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on November 9, 2014 in Beijing, China. (How Hwee Young - Pool/Getty Images)
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Syrian opposition members inspect the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack by Assad regime forces in Jobar region of Damascus, Syria on November 13, 2014. (Lokman Sair/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Masked Palestinian members of the Islamic Jihad military wing Saraya Al-Quds march in remembrance of its founder Fathi Shiqaqi on October 24, 2008 in Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip. (Abid Katib/Getty Images)
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The first successfully conducted intercept flight test of a land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) weapon system and Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile, Kauai, Hawaii. (MDA)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
