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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Defense Strategy
Defense Strategy
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Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces descend from helicopters at the foot of Mt. Fuji, August 21, 2012. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/GettyImages)
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The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush transits the Strait of Hormuz, June 14, 2014. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Barnes)
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A soldier from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force carries an 84mm Carl Gustav rocket launcher during Exercise Iron Fist 2014, a joint-exercise with US Marines and sailors at Camp Pendleton on February 9, 2014. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israeli soldiers in front of the separation-barrier during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers, at the Israeli Qalandiya checkpoint, August 13, 2014. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israeli Merkava tanks drive near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on August 5, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Palestinian man looks out over destruction in part of Gaza City's al-Tufah neighbourhood as the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a second day on August 6, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani soldiers patrol through a destroyed bazaar during a military operation against Taliban militants in Miranshah, North Waziristan, July 9, 2014. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Smoke from rockets fired from Gaza City are seen after being launched toward Israel, on July 15, 2014.(THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Jeremy Hunt
Media Fellow
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Aaron MacLean
Senior Fellow
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
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
