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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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An Afghan security personnel keeps watch near the largest US military base in Bagram, 50 km north of Kabul, after an explosion on November 12, 2016. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
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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)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
