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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
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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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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin arrives at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, on March 21, 2023. (Contributor via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
