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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
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Central America and the Caribbean
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Soldiers guard the prison entrance at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on April 4, 2025. (Alex Pena via Getty Images)
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President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during the 5th year celebration of the victory in the 2018 presidential election at Zocalo on July 1, 2023, in Mexico City, Mexico. (Hector Vivas via Getty Images)
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Dockworkers walk past a Cosco Shipping container ship at the Chinese port of Yantai on December 29, 2022. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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Ukraine-bound M777 Howitzers staged at March Air Reserve Base, California, on April 22, 2022. (US Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Austin Fraley)
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Law Enforcement Detachment 106 captures a cocaine-laden self-propelled semi-submersible in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2009. (US Coast Guard)
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Protesters gather in front of the Versailles restaurant to show support for the people in Cuba who have taken to the streets there to protest on July 11, 2021 in Miami, Florida (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Experts
David W. Murray
Senior Fellow
