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A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
Defense Strategy
Defense Strategy
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Damages on the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, June 18, 2017 (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Trump announces he will not recertify the Iran deal, October 13, 2017 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Submarine force Sailors attend the 1000th Trident Patrol Commemoration Ceremony, February 19, 2009 (United States Navy)
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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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A U.S. Army advisor for the Afghan Air Force signals the Afghan crew chief during a training mission outside of Kabul, September 13, 2017 (Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images)
Experts
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Aparna Pande
Senior Fellow
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
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
