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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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A television news screen in Seoul, South Korea, on March 17, 2023, shows a picture of North Korea's test-firing of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)
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The flag of Taiwan in Taipei on October 10, 2012. (Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on October 24, 2024. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AFP via Getty Images)
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A view of Tehran, Iran, on October 26, 2024. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Two Ukrainian army mechanics repair a broken MT-LB in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on October 25, 2024. (Fermin Torrano/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Local resident walks through empty streets of Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on October 19, 2024. (Maciek Musialek/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Russian infantry in the trenches during their battle against the Austro-Hungarian army on the eastern front in World War I in August 1914. (Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
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A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, on March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. (DVIDS)
Experts
Douglas J. Feith
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
