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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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Ukrainian soldiers operate an American Humvee fitted with Soviet era Grad launcher in the direction of Toretsk, Ukraine, on January 23, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Apache test detonation on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on July 8, 1956. (Getty Images)
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Recruits of the Alcatraz assault battalion prepare for medical and trench training in Donetsk Oblast on January 31, 2025. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Map of Asia from 1902 showing Arabia, Persia, the Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, and the Chinese Empire. (The Print Collector via Getty Images)
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Internet is monitored for potential threats, bugs, and viruses on May 4, 2010, in Columbia, MD. (Jeffrey MacMillan via Getty Images)
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United States President Donald Trump speaks to the press before he departs from the White House on January 31, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during the opening of the National People's Congress on March 5, 2015, in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang via Getty Images).
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Standard Missile-3 Block 1B guided missile successfully intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile target off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, on October 13, 2013. (DVIDS)
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President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the awarding ceremony at the Moscow State University, on January 24, 2025, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers work on a Soviet era Pion self propelled howitzer in the direction of Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on January 27, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
