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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
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M142 HIMARS launches a rocket on December 29, 2023 in Ukraine. (Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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A Short-Range Reconnaissance quadcopter in Fort Dix, New Jersey, on May 9, 2024. (Daniel Amburg via DVIDS)
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Taliban security forces demonstrate their skills during the ceremony in Guzara district of Herat province on June 22, 2023. (Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin attends the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2024. (Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks through the scope as he shoots a Chukavin sniper rifle during a visit to the military Patriot Park in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on September 19, 2018. (Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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A US and a Chinese flag wave outside a commercial building in Beijing, July 9, 2007. (TEH ENG KOON/AFP via Getty Images)
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An aerial view of General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard on March 20, 2020, in San Diego, California. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
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The Mogami-class frigate JS Yubetsu is launched at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tamano, Japan, on November 14, 2023. (Japanese Ministry of Defense)
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A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortres and other aircraft fly in formation over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt on February 24, 2024, in the Philippine Sea. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Thomas Gooley)
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David Byrd
Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Jack David
Senior Fellow and Trustee
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
