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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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A B-52 Stratofortress assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing flies at a high altitude during a mission over the Baltic Sea, Oct. 23, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by SSgt. Trevor T. McBride)
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U.S. troops deploy for Europe from Pope Army Airfield at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on February 3, 2022. (Photo by ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Servicemen take part in combat patrol and anti-sabotage drills involving RS-24 Yars road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile systems. (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov\TASS via Getty Images)
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Heavy security arrangements deployed at the entrance of the Mini Secretariat on December 24, 2021 in Ludhiana, India, following a bomb attack by Sikh separatists. (Photo by Gurpreet Singh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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A central processor microchip known as a semiconductor within a circuit board at Bonn Proton Ltd on October 08, 2021 in Bonn, Germany. (Photo illustration by Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images)
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Niger Army armed forces patrol during a visit of Niger's Interior Minister to a camp for displaced populations near Diffa on June 16, 2016 following attacks by Boko Haram fighters in the region. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian Armed Forces move to park in their base near Klugino-Bashkirivka village, in the Kharkiv region on January 31, 2022. (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP via Getty Images)
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T-72B3 tanks of the Russian Southern Military District's 150th Rifle Division take part in a military exercise at Kadamovsky Range. (Photo by Erik Romanenko\TASS via Getty Images)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
