Defense Strategy
Defense Strategy
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![A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test June 22, 2006 in the Pacific Ocean. (Chris Bishop/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10917/feature_2015_01_05_weitz2.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=-G64yO_y)
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A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test June 22, 2006 in the Pacific Ocean. (Chris Bishop/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
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![US navy warship, forward-deployed Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65), docks at the Sydney Harbour in front of the Harbour Bridge on October 4, 2013. (SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10879/feature_2014_12_17_seth.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=XnEw_wpt)
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US navy warship, forward-deployed Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65), docks at the Sydney Harbour in front of the Harbour Bridge on October 4, 2013. (SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
![U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (C) speaks as President Barack Obama (L) and Vice President Joe Biden look on during a press conference announcing Hagel's resignation, November 24, 2014. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10831/feature_2014_11_26_arthur.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=le6tgXSg)
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (C) speaks as President Barack Obama (L) and Vice President Joe Biden look on during a press conference announcing Hagel's resignation, November 24, 2014. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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![Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement in Vienna on the status of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, November 24, 2014. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10823/feature_2014_11_24_lee_smith.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=VVVTQ7HC)
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Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement in Vienna on the status of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, November 24, 2014. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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![A member of Russia's delegation looks at a monitor showing the speech of US President Barack Obama during the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on March 25, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10828/feature_2014_11_21_weitz.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=qzB7f84x)
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A member of Russia's delegation looks at a monitor showing the speech of US President Barack Obama during the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on March 25, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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(MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
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![Russian Topol ICBMs missiles during a rehearsal for the nation's annual May 9 Victory Day parade, 50 km outside Moscow in Yushkovo, March 18, 2008. (DIMA KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10772/feature_2014_11_04_ken_bill_andrei.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=XQ0nWNyY)
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Russian Topol ICBMs missiles during a rehearsal for the nation's annual May 9 Victory Day parade, 50 km outside Moscow in Yushkovo, March 18, 2008. (DIMA KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)
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