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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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A Taliban security personnel holds his gun as he rides zipline on the outskirts of Kabul on July 4, 2024. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin grimaces during his meeting with participants of the Russia International Exhibition-Forum on July 8, 2024, in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)
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Peter Rough and Christopher Cavoli at the NATO Public Forum on July 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Madeline Yarbrough)
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A general view of the NATO's seventy-fifth anniversary commemoration event in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2024. (Turkish Presidency/Murat Kula/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Emergency and rescue personnel clear the rubble of the destroyed building of Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital after a missile attack in Kyiv on July 9, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Nada Schadlow at the NATO Public Forum on July 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Madeline Yarbrough)
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Andris Sprūds, Ben Hodges, and Luke Coffey at the NATO Public Forum on July 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Madeline Yarbrough)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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A US Navy Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman deploys the Puma All Environment Unmanned Aircraft System in the Aegean Sea near Greece on July 15, 2020. (Photo via DVIDS)
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US Navy members conduct troubleshooting and maintenance measures on the Razorback UUV in the Atlantic Ocean on August 26, 2023. (US Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Mikaela McGee)
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Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
