Adam Rawnsley is a Philadelphia-based reporter covering technology and national security. He co-authors FP’s Situation Report newsletter and has written for The Daily Beast, Wired, and War Is Boring.
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US President Barack Obama speaks before a meeting with the National Security Council (NSC) on February 25, 2016 at the State Department in Washington, DC.
From left: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Secretary of State John Kerry, Obama, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and CIA Director John Brennan. / AFP / Mandel Ngan (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
RED SEA - SEPTEMBER 23: (EDITORS NOTE: IMAGE RELEASED BY U.S. MILITARY PRIOR TO TRANSMISSION) In this handout image provided by the U.S. Navy, The guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) launches Tomahawk cruise missiles on September 23, 2014 in the Red Sea. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Carlos M. Vazquez II/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
ISTANBUL, TURKEY- OCTOBER 10: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan (R) attend a news conference October, 10, 2016 in Istanbul,Turkey. Putin is on a day-long visit to Turkey. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (R) and US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump debate during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 9, 2016. / AFP / Robyn Beck (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 25, 2016 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) waving as he inspects a test-fire of strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile at an undisclosed location. / AFP / KCNA / KNS / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT / SOUTH KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
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This picture taken on September 12, 2016 shows the Russian destroyer Admiral Tributs arriving at Zhanjiang port in Chinas southern Guangdong province.
Russian navy ships arrived for eight-day joint military exercises with the Chinese navy in the South China Sea, in a show of force after an international tribunal invalidated the Asian giant's extensive claims in the region. / AFP / STR / China OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
FARMVILLE, VA - OCTOBER 04: Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine (L) and Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence (R) debate as moderator Elaine Quijano (C) listens during the Vice Presidential Debate at Longwood University on October 4, 2016 in Farmville, Virginia. This is the second of four debates during the presidential election season and the only debate between the vice presidential candidates. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
ASTRAKHAN REGION, RUSSIA. MARCH 30, 2016. An S-300PM air defence missile system during a joint military drill by Air Force and Air Defence Force units of Russia's Central Military District, at Ashuluk. Donat Sorokin/TASS (Photo by Donat SorokinTASS via Getty Images)
SHANDONG, CHINA - DECEMBER 22: (CHINA MAINLAND OUT)Chinese first peacekeeping infantry battalion will go to South Sudan for peacekeeping mission on 22th December, 2014 in Laiyang, Shandong, China.(Photo by TPG/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) listens to explanations during his visit to Nadezhda sailing vessel in Sochi on September 24, 2016. / AFP / SPUTNIK / ALEKSEY NIKOLSKY (Photo credit should read ALEKSEY NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
TAJI, IRAQ - APRIL 12: A U.S. Army trainer (L), instructs Iraqi Army recruits at a military base on April 12, 2015 in Taji, Iraq. Members of the U.S. Army's 5-73 CAV, 3BCT, 82nd Airborne Division are teaching members of the newly-formed 15th Division of the Iraqi Army, as the Iraqi government launches offensives to try to recover territory lost to ISIS last year. U.S. forces, currently operating in 5 large bases throught the country, are training thousands of Iraqi Army combat troops, trying to rebuild a force they had origninally trained before the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2010. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Members of a joint investigation team present the preliminary results of the criminal investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , in Nieuwegein, on September 28, 2016.
Last year a separate inquiry led by the Dutch Safety Board (OVV) found the Boeing 777 was hit by a BUK missile fired from an area most likely in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since early 2014. / AFP / EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
during the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York. The first of four debates for the 2016 Election, three Presidential and one Vice Presidential, is moderated by NBC's Lester Holt.
A Syrian man carries the body of his nephew following a reported airstrike on September 23, 2016, on the al-Muasalat area in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
Missiles rained down on rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo, causing widespread destruction that overwhelmed rescue teams, as the army prepared a ground offensive to retake the city. / AFP / THAER MOHAMMED (Photo credit should read THAER MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images)
