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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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An RT-2PM2 intercontinental ballistic missile on display at Army Expo 2022 in Moscow's Patriot Park on August 20, 2022. (Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev during a Soviet-American summit on November 19, 1985. (RIA Novosti via Wikimedia Commons)
In the Media
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Joe Biden addresses the second and final day of the NATO 2022 Summit on June 30, 2022, in Madrid, Spain. (Europa Presse/E. Parra via Getty Images)
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The manned Shenzhou-12 spacecraft onboard the Long March-2F rocket launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2021, in Jiuquan, Gansu province, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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People's Liberation Army Honor Guard attend a flag-raising ceremony at the Tiananmen Square to mark the seventy-second anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2021, in Beijing, China. (VCG via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers comb through wreckage after Russian shelling in Kyiv on June 26, 2022. (Kyiv City State Administration via Wikimedia Commons)
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Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri photographed in 2001. (Hamid Mir via Wikimedia Commons http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/features/pakistan/main/2011/05/03/feature-02)
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A man looks on at a snow-covered security checkpoint that marks the entrance to Logar province, beyond the southern gate on January 17, 2022, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
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Nancy Pelosi and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 3, 2022. (Chien Chih-Hung / Office of the President)
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Taliban gunmen control Kandahar-Herat Highway, near Kandahar on October 31, 2001. (Banaras Khan/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
