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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
Defense Strategy
Defense Strategy
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The manned Shenzhou-12 spacecraft onboard the Long March-2F rocket launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2021, in Jiuquan, Gansu province, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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An Iranian boy in an IRGC uniform waves a flag in front of two ballistic missiles during a rally in Tehran on February 10, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin, together with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and First Deputy Defence Minister Valery Gerasimov, observed the main stage of the Vostok-2022 strategic command post exercise at the Sergeyevsky range in the Primorye Territory. (Kremlin)
In the Media
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran on August 29, 2022. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iranian demonstrators burn an effigy of President Joe Biden in downtown Tehran during a rally commemorating the International Quds Day on April 29, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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North Korean People's Army soldiers march on September 9, 2018, in Pyongyang, North Korea, as part of a parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the nation's founding. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin attends a Navy Day parade in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on July 31 2022. (Getty Images)
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Airmen prepare an AGM-86B air-launched cruise missile for a nuclear weapons system evaluation program test flight at Minot Air Force Base on April 10, 2013. (Tech Sgt. Mark Bell/Air Force Global Strike Command Public Affairs)
Commentary
Experts
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Komei Isozaki
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
John Lee
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Aparna Pande
Senior Fellow
Dan Patt
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
David Rader
Senior Fellow
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
