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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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Military personnel arrive in a Chinook before Iraqi soldiers take part in a live-fire exercise for under the surveillance of US-led coalition forces at Basmaya base, Iraq on January 27, 2016. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants take part in an anti-Israel rally in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 18, 2015. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
Commentary
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a congress of the ruling United Russia party in Moscow, on September 23, 2011. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Barack Obama, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R), at the White House November 6, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference on January 17, 2016 in the capital Tehran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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St. Elijah's Monastery, Mosul, Iraq, February 15, 2005, before its destruction. (Doug/Wikimedia)
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Screenshot of the Iranian news program that aired footage of the 10 U.S. sailors who were taken hostage. (Sepah News)
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B-52 Stratofortress refuels over the Pacific, April 2014. (US Air Force/Released)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
