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A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
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Tanks, armored vehicles, and military machinery belonging to the Israeli army withdraw from the central Gaza Strip on April 17, 2024. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Israeli soldiers sit atop an infantry-fighting vehicle near the border with the Gaza strip in southern Israel on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)
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MV Roy P. Benavidez, a US naval logistics naval vessel, anchored off the coast of the Gaza Strip on April 27, 2024. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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An IranAir Airbus A330 at Mehrabad International Airport on March 11, 2017, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to the press after the House passed a major aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and also voted to ban TikTok at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 20, 2024. (Photo by Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images)
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The remains of a missile that landed on the shore of the Dead Sea on April 21, 2024. (Menahem Kahana via Getty Images)
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People march with flags and banners to celebrate Iran's attack on Israel on April 19, 2024, in Tehran, Iran. (Fatemeh Bahrami via Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
