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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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US Marine Corps recruits with Delta Company participate in the “stairway to heaven” challenge on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, on July 29, 2022. (Cristian G. Torres via DVIDS)
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Joe Biden speaks to service members and their families on June 9, 2023, at Fort Liberty, North Carolina. (Eros Hoagland via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin greets nuclear weapons developer Yuri Barmakov during the State Awarding Ceremony at the Grand Kremlin Palace on June 12, 2022, in Moscow. (via Getty Images)
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US Navy aircraft rest on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Philippine Sea on May 11, 2023. (David Rowe via DVIDS)
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People shelter in a subway station during Russian missiles attack on May 29, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey via Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden delivers a brief update of the ongoing negotiations over the debt limit in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on May 17, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
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Ronald Reagan addresses the Nation from the oval office on National Security on March 23, 1983. (Wikimedia Commons)
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A Ukrainian tank fires during practice on the frontline of the Russia-Ukraine War in Donetsk, Ukraine, on March 29, 2023. (Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Servicemen belonging to the Ukrainian storm brigade take part in military exercises outside Kyiv on April 20, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
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Civil Engineering Squadron launches a drone to perform a roof inspection outside of Osan Air Base’s Turumi Lodge on November 2, 2020. (Daniel de La Fé via DVIDS)
Experts
David Byrd
Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Jack David
Senior Fellow and Trustee
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
