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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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Defense Strategy
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-eighth session on September 19, 2023. (UN Photo via Flickr)
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The submarine tender USS Emory S. Land flies the national ensign in the Pacific Ocean on January 26, 2023. (US Navy photo by Luke Wilson)
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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) steams in formation during a multiple large deck event in the Pacific Ocean on June 8, 2023. (US Navy photo)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un visiting the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur region on September 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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A small unmanned aircraft system in flight at Dugway Proving Ground on December 10, 2020. (Becki Bryant via DVIDS)
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A grass-camouflaged serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine takes part in a training with UAV operators on June 15, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Andriy Zhyhaylo/Obozrevatel/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Sailors prepare an F/A-18E Super Hornet for launch from the flight deck aboard the US Navy’s USS Ronald Reagan in the Philippine Sea on August 11, 2023. (Caroline H. Lui via DVIDS)
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A destroyed Russian tank sits in a snow covered wheat field in Kharkiv region amid Russia's military invasion on Ukraine on February 22, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel and the guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) operate in the Arabian Gulf on January 8, 2023. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeremy R. Boan)
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
