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Ceremonial soldiers parade during the 79th anniversary of the Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2024. (Sefa Karacan via Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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Soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne provide security during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 21, 2021. (Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Isaiah Campbell)
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Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong attends a meeting with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 20, 2017. (Lintao Zhanf/AFP via Getty Images)
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An RT-2PM2 intercontinental ballistic missile on display at Army Expo 2022 in Moscow's Patriot Park on August 20, 2022. (Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev during a Soviet-American summit on November 19, 1985. (RIA Novosti via Wikimedia Commons)
In the Media
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Joe Biden addresses the second and final day of the NATO 2022 Summit on June 30, 2022, in Madrid, Spain. (Europa Presse/E. Parra via Getty Images)
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The manned Shenzhou-12 spacecraft onboard the Long March-2F rocket launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2021, in Jiuquan, Gansu province, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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People's Liberation Army Honor Guard attend a flag-raising ceremony at the Tiananmen Square to mark the seventy-second anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2021, in Beijing, China. (VCG via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers comb through wreckage after Russian shelling in Kyiv on June 26, 2022. (Kyiv City State Administration via Wikimedia Commons)
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Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri photographed in 2001. (Hamid Mir via Wikimedia Commons http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/features/pakistan/main/2011/05/03/feature-02)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
