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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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Aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) transits the Pacific Ocean, May 31, 2015. (U.S. Navy Photo/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Eric Coffer/Released)
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President-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Foreign Ministers from China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, Britain, and the US on July 14, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. (Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images)
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The littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) pulls alongside USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) off the coast of Southern California, April 28, 2015. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ignacio D. Perez/ Released)
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Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, with Rep. Robert Wittman, R-Va., holds a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, pray during a Christmas mass in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq on December 24, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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A flag flying at an undisclosed location in Iran next to a surface-to-surface Qiam-1 (Rising) missile, August 20, 2010. (VAHID REZA ALAEI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Three A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft fly in formation over Tucson, Ariz., during an air refueling training mission, April 14, 2006. (Senior Airman Christina D. Ponte/DefenseLINK/Released)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
Marshall Billingslea
Senior Fellow
