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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Security Alliances
Security Alliances
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U.S. and Japanese naval forces participate in the Keen Sword 15 joint exercise in 2014 (Photo 12/ UIG via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Poroshenko at a meeting of the UN Security Council discussing peacekeeping operations, September 20, 2017 (Mikhail Palinchak\TASS via Getty Images)
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President Trump and German Chancellor Merkel at the G20 summit in Hamburg, July 8, 2017 (Ukas Michael - Pool/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a joint press conference in Tokyo, November 6, 2017 (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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(Image credit: Roy Scott)
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Pro-Kurdistan independence rally in Erbil, September 22, 2017 (Image credit: Levi Clancy)
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UN Security Council meeting on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, September 21, 2017 (EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images)
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Members of a Kurdish Peshmerga battalion show their ink-stained fingers after voting in the Kurdish independence referendum, September 25, 2017 (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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US and Japanese flags (photo by: Richard Cummins)
Experts
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Tom Tugendhat
Distinguished Fellow
