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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 air defense servicemen prepare their weapons near Kyiv on January 3, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Dmitriy Donskoy nuclear ballistic missile submarine arrives at St Petersburg to take part in a ship parade marking Russian Navy Day in Russia on July 26, 2017. (Sergey Mihailicenko/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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USS Samuel B. Roberts underway after the ship struck a mine in the Persian Gulf, April 14, 1988. (US Navy)
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Yemen's Houthis held a military parade commemorating the ninth anniversary of their takeover of the capital Sana'a on September 21, 2023, in Sana'a, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier is placed in trenches retaken from the Russian army on the Vuhledar front line as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on December 1, 2023. (Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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An Israel Defense Forces artillery unit fires towards Gaza near the border on December 11, 2023, in Southern Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)
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Communal workers walk next to a crater and destroyed houses following a Russian shelling in Kyiv on December 11, 2023. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during their meeting in Amur Oblast, Russia, on September 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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155mm artillery shells in the production shop at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant on April 12, 2023, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (Hannah Beier via Getty Images)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
