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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Ikazuchi transits Uraga Channel in front of Mt. Fuji on February 17, 2016. (US Navy photo by William McGough)
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A destroyed Russian tank stands by the road in front of an orthodox temple in the liberated town of Sviatohirsk, Ukraine, on November 30, 2022. (Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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An American F-35B Lightning fighter jet accelerates on deck of the HMS Queen Elizabeth on September 28, 2020. (Marine Corps photo by Joseph Freshour)
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Paratroopers take part in the Caucasus 2020 joint military drills, which included Russian and Belarusian troops, on September 25, 2020, in Southern Russia. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian servicemen at a site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian missile attack near Kyiv, Ukraine on November 23, 2022. (Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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An unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) operator recovers a MK 18 MOD 2 UUV after an operational test off the coast of Bahrain on October 20, 2015. (US Navy Photo by Jonah Stepanik)
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Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force ships JS Kashima and JS Shimakaze take part in joint drills with NATO allies on June 6, 2022, in the Mediterranean Sea. (Michelle Tucker via DVIDS)
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Ukrainian Army soldier Ihor Gutsenko gets ready to fly an Airlogix unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveillance drone in a field outside Kyiv on November 9, 2022. (Paula Bronstein via Getty Images)
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
