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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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The U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, fly in the Delta Formation over the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush off the Florida coast near Mayport Naval Station, Fla., in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec.10, 2013. (DoD/Released)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Russian armament exhibition Expo Arms-2011 September 9 2011 in the Urals town of Nizhny Tagil, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
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A launcher carrying what analysts have said is a mock-up of the KN-08 ICBM moves through Pyongyang on April 15, 2012, as part of a military parade. (Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images)
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French President Francois Hollande, center, inspects a model of the Royal Australian Navy's Collins class submarine during a visit to French defense contractor Thales' office in Sydney on Nov. 18, 2014. (Dan Himbrechts - Pool/Getty Images)
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U.S. aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing 9 launch from the flight deck of the USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, May 1, 2015. (DoD/Released)
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The flag of the European Union flies from the European Parliament information office in the European Quarter on February 25, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)
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HMAS Melbourne conducting Maritime security Operations in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. (Handout/Royal Australian Navy)
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Syrian opposition members inspect the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack by Assad regime forces in Jobar region of Damascus, Syria on November 13, 2014. (Lokman Sair/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Experts
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
John Lee
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Aaron MacLean
Senior Fellow
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Aparna Pande
Research Fellow, India and South Asia
Dan Patt
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
