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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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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy and Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain move alongside the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Indian Ocean, April 14, 2017 (U.S. Department of Defense)
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A long-range ground-based interceptor successfully intercepted an ICBM target launched from the U.S. Army’s Reagan Test Site. This was the first live-fire test event against an ICBM-class target (Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Department of Defense)
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Mourners carry a large cross during a funeral procession on April 10, 2017 at the Monastery of Marmina in the city of Borg El-Arab, for the victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark's church in Alexandria the previous day (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
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Secretary-General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah live broadcasts during a commemoration event for Mustafa Badreddine, a soldier of Hezbollah killed in Syria, in Dahieh district of Beirut, Lebanon on May 11, 2017 (Ratib Al Safadi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Relatives of Coptic Christians who were killed during a bus attack, surround their coffins, during their funeral service, at Ava Samuel desert monastery in Minya, Egypt, May 26, 2017 (Ibrahim Ezzat/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Relatives of killed Coptic Christians carry a coffin as they gather outside the Abu Garnous Cathedral in the north Minya town of Maghagha, on May 26, 2017 (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump speaks during the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, May 21, 2017 (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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North Korea's ballistic missile, North Korea Victory Day, 2013 (Stefan Krasowski)
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Police and Military presence seen outside Buckingam Palace on May 24, 2017 in London, England (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Donald Trump holds a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, March 17, 2017 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and U.S. President Donald Trump join dancers with swords at Murabba Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2017 (Bandar Algaloud / Saudi Royal Council / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Experts
David Byrd
Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Ezra Cohen
Adjunct Fellow
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Jack David
Senior Fellow and Trustee
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Nikki R. Haley
Walter P. Stern Chair
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative
Jeremy Hunt
Media Fellow
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
Tod Lindberg
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Aaron MacLean
Senior Fellow
Mario Mancuso
Visiting Senior Fellow
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Brigham A. McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
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
David Rader
Senior Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Robert Spalding
Senior Fellow
Koichiro Takagi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
John P. Walters
President and CEO
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
