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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
Middle East
Middle East
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Iranian elite revolutionary guards march during an annual military parade in Tehran on September 22, 2011. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israelis mourn and light candles in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on June 30, 2014 after the announce that the bodies of the three missing Israeli teenagers were found. (OREN ZIV/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon (R) and Armenia's President Serzh Sarkisian of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) at the Kremlin in Moscow, on May 8, 2014. (SERGEI KARPUKHIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Iraqi security officer stands guard outside the Church of the Virgin Mary in Bartala, June 15, 2012. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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The 164th meeting of the OPEC conference in Vienna, on December 4, 2013.(ALEXANDER KLEIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pump jacks in an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation on March 23, 2014 near Lost Hills, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
