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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
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Supporters cheer under a huge flag of Taiwan during an election campaign rally of Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih in New Taipei City on January 12, 2024. (Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers patrol with a Bradley Fighting vehicle as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in Avdiivka Donbas, Ukraine, on December 4, 2023. (Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers fire "Mini Grad" multi-barrel rocket launchers at Russian positions in the direction of Kupiansk in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on January 7, 2024. (Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Members of the Yemeni Coast Guard affiliated with the Houthis patrol the Red Sea as demonstrators march through the port city of Hodeida in solidarity with the people of Gaza on January 4, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian air defense servicemen prepare their weapons near Kyiv on January 3, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Dmitriy Donskoy nuclear ballistic missile submarine arrives at St Petersburg to take part in a ship parade marking Russian Navy Day in Russia on July 26, 2017. (Sergey Mihailicenko/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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USS Samuel B. Roberts underway after the ship struck a mine in the Persian Gulf, April 14, 1988. (US Navy)
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
