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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
Defense Strategy
Defense Strategy
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Korean People's Army (KPA) tanks are displayed during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang on April 15, 2017. (ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis arrives via helicopter at Resolute Support headquarters on April 24, 2017 in in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Jonathan Ernst - Pool/Getty Images)
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Candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination Donald Trump speaks out against President Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran in at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, September 9, 2015. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at an exclusive interview with AFP in the capital Damascus on February 11, 2016. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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The Redesigned Kill Vehicle Standard Missile 3 (SM-3). (Raytheon)
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DigitalGlobe imagery of the Shayrat Air Base outside of Homs, Syria. Closeup-1, April 7, 2016. (Photo DigitalGlobe/Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he walks to Marine One at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 18, 2017. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russia's president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with his envoy to the Volga Federal District, Alexander Yevstifeyev (not in picture) in the Kremlin. (Mikhail Klimentyev\TASS via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Syria from the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Arthur Herman
Senior Fellow
Jeremy Hunt
Media Fellow
Jun Isomura
Senior Fellow
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
John Lee
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Aaron MacLean
Senior Fellow
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Aparna Pande
Research Fellow, India and South Asia
Dan Patt
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
William Schneider
Senior Fellow
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
