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Advisor, Al-Mesbar Center & Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Joseph Braude
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Le porte-avions Charles de Gaulle croisant avec le USS Enterprise en mer Méditerranée, en 2001. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Doug Pearlman/Wikimedia Commons)