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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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Activists march on May 15, 2014 in the streets of Kenya's capital Nairobi demanding the release of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from schools in nothern Nigeria by muslim extremist group Boko-haram.(TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S.-China Summit Meeting, Rancho Mirage, California, June 8, 2013 (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images).
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US Navy crew members on deck as a F-18 Super Hornet strike fighter plane takes off from the USS George Washington on the Korean Peninsula's west sea on November 30, 2010 (Song Kyung-Seok - pool/Getty Images)
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Escorted by Chinese military personnel, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel arrives at Qingdao International Airport April 7, 2014 in Qingdao, China. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Franciscan fryers in the traditional Palm Sunday procession from Mt. Olives to Jerusalem's Old City on April 13, 2014. (GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)
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China's first aircraft carrier 'Liaoning' in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province (STR/AFP/GettyImages)
Commentary
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US and Japanese warships follow US aircraft carrier USS George Washington during a US-Japan military exercise at the Pacific Ocean on December 10, 2010. (TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
