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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
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The USS Tuscon transits the East China Sea on July 26, 2010. (US Navy)
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US Navy aircraft rest on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Philippine Sea on May 11, 2023. (David Rowe via DVIDS)
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A TV showing a file image of a North Korean missile launch on March 24, 2022, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
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US Air Force pilot looks down at the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovered over the Central Continental, United States, on February 3, 2023. (US Department of Defense/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Pakistani military personnel stand beside a Shaheen III surface-to-surface ballistic missile during a Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2017. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden in Valhalla, New York, on May 10, 2023. (Mike Groll via Flickr)
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US Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion engage targets with a pair of high mobility artillery rocket systems during Exercise Griffin Shock 23 live fire event in Bemowo Piskie, Poland, on May 19, 2023. (John Schoebel via DVIDS)
Experts
David Feith
Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
John Lee
Senior Fellow
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Steven Quay
Senior Fellow
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
