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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
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A member of the Civil Disobedience Movement Wai Yan makes drinks at a restaurant after fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand to avoid conscription by Myanmar's military junta, in Bangkok on June 4, 2024. (Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images)
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The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, took part in the unveiling of a memorial stone on May 18, 2024. (Photo via Flickr)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a commemoration ceremony for soldiers killed during the 2014 Gaza war in Jerusalem on July 16, 2024. (Abir Sultan/AFP via Getty Images)
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Flags of Ukraine and NATO are seen outside a press conference of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 29 2024. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the NATO Summit on July 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher Luxon and President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol attend a meeting during the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
