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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)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on March 17, 2023. (Yoshikazu Tsuno via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the fourth plenary session of the National People's Congress on March 11, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
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The expedition cruise ship Polar Pioneer at Gnålodden in the Hornsund in Svalbard, Norway, on July 15, 2015. (Wolfgang Kaehler via Getty Images)
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Iranian and Russian navies attend a joint military exercise in the Arabian Sea on February 17, 2021. (Iranian Army/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on February 14, 2023. (Yan Yan/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station on May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Bill Ingalls via DVIDS)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping toast during a reception at the Kremlin, Moscow, on March 21, 2023. (Pavel Byrkin/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Brahmos supersonic cruise missile that was developed between India and Russia. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis Sygma via Getty Images)
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A soldier with the First Amphibious Rapid Deployment Regiment, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, takes part in a training exercise on March 3, 2023, in Kagoshima, Japan. (US Marine Corps photo by Vincent Pham)
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William Chou
Deputy Director, Japan Chair
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Bill Drexel
Fellow
Jamie Fly
Senior Fellow
John Fonte
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for American Common Culture
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Nikki R. Haley
Walter P. Stern Chair
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Ahmad Hashemi
Research Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative
Melanie Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow
Rania Kisar
Research Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Marshall Kosloff
Media Fellow
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Jon Lerner
Senior Fellow
Tod Lindberg
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Mario Mancuso
Visiting Senior Fellow
Brigham McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Tim Morrison
Senior Fellow
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Erin O’Toole
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Aparna Pande
Research Fellow, India and South Asia
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Nadia Schadlow
Senior Fellow
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Robert Spalding
Senior Fellow
Tom Tugendhat
Distinguished Fellow
Nury Turkel
Senior Fellow
Mike Watson
Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
