Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Former Senior Fellow and Vice President, Development
Brian Blake
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A Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor is launched from the USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific, May 16, 2013. (U.S. Missile Defense Agency)
A Kurdish refugee mother and son from the Syrian town of Kobani walk beside their tent in a camp on the Turkish-Syrian border on October 19, 2014 in Sanliurfa, Turkey. (Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images)
A man passes by electric screen showing Chinese shares decrease sharply to a halt point on January 7, 2016 in Shanghai, China. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)
Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy (L) interviews Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Michael Botticelli on March 10, 2016. (Fox and Friends/Screenshot)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Des Moines Area Community College Newton Campus on November 19, 2015 in Newton, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)