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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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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying satellites for the U.S. Air Force stands ready for launch tonight at pad 39A on June 24, 2019 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Space Test Program-2 mission will attempt to deliver 24 different payloads into thr
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A general view of "Ever Given", a container ship operated by the Evergreen Marine Corporation which is currently stuck in the Suez canal, during a tugging attempt to re-float it (Photo by Fadell Dawod/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 3, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) looking at a metal casing with two bulges at an undisclosed location. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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A general view of the USS Makin Island in Victoria Harbour. 20AUG14 (Photo by Nora Tam/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)
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This picture taken late on March 27, 2021 shows a view of tugboats by the Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given' (operated by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine) container ship, which has been wedged diagonally across the span of the canal about six kilometres north o
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Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles during the main stage of the Vostok 2018 large-scale military exercise held by the Russian Armed Forces and involving troops from China and Mongolia, at the Tsugol range (Getty Images)
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The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) transits the Mediterranean Sea, March 17, 2021 (U.S. Navy Photo).
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DoD Photo by Jonathan Koester
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A microchip developed jointly by the Air Force Research Laboratory and American Semiconductor (U.S. Air Force Photo)
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The USS Constitution set sail for the first time since 1997 in Boston Harbor. (Photo by Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Experts
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting 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
