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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Security Alliances
Security Alliances
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A C-17 Globemaster takes off as Taliban fighters secure the outer perimeter alongside the American controlled side of of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
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President Joe Biden handwrites a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday, July 8, 2022, to offer his condolences following the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
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A Ukrainian fighter jet takes part in a training mission on January 15, 2018. (Ukraine Ministry of Defense)
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Leaders of member states of NATO line up for a group photograph on June 29, 2022, in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Denis Doyle/Getty Images)
In the Media
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Michael R. Pompeo delivering a speech at Hudson Institute. (Cherie Cullen).
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Soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army march on Red Square during a military parade in Moscow on June 24, 2020. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
