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NATO soldiers of U.S. and Lithuania, right, take part in a military exercise 'Saber Strike 2018' at the Training Range in Pabrade some 60km (38 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, June 11, 2018. A major U.S.-led military exercise with 18,000 soldiers from 19 primarily NATO countries is taking place in the alliance's eastern flank involving Poland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

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Military Times reporter Todd South examines weapons under consideration by the U.S. Army for conventional forces in a video published June 13, 2018. (Image: Military Times video screenshot)

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U.S. Army soldiers roll through a National Guard training area in Artemus, Kentucky, June 5, 2016. (Image: U.S. Army, Maj. Carla Raisler) ** FILE **

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. A U.S. drone strike in Somalia has targeted a key leader of the al-Shabab militant group who was involved in two attacks in Mogadishu more than a year ago that killed more than 30 people, at least three Americans among them, the Pentagon said Friday, April 1, 2016. Several U.S. officials said he and two others were killed. Hassan Ali Dhoore was targeted in the airstrike Thursday, but the U.S. military was still assessing the results, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor, File)

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Under the cease fire call from Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Afghan forces will refrain from carrying out offensive operations until Eid-al-Fitr begins. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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The damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with the container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Melania Trump, the wife of US President Donald Trump, speaks with a doctor as she works on crepe paper flowers with patients at the Queen Fabiola Childrens Hospital in Brussels on Thursday, May 25, 2017. Melanie Trump will visit a children's hospital, museum and the royal palace while US President Donald Trump attends the NATO summit. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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The Faith & Freedom Coalition hosts its annual "Road to Majority" gathering this weekend and it features some high-profile guests. (Faith & Freedom Coalition)

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Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) has released a propaganda video with its new "no tension" training uniforms. (Twitter, Jake Hanrahan via Tore Hamming)

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The world map of peace, showing the most peaceful and least peaceful nations on earth. The U.S. is ranked 114. (Global Peace Index)

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Defense Secretary James N. Mattis will be pressuring NATO members to do more on and off the battlefield. The U.S. pressure for more defense spending and support from key NATO allies is having an impact, analysts say. (Associated Press Photographs)

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The U.S. Army has released footage of its "third arm" prototype created by engineers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. (Image: YouTube, U.S. Army Research Laboratory)

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Illustration on Hamas' use of human shields by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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20. MS Dhoni: Endorsements $16 million, Social Following 20.5 million. India's batsman MS Dhoni plays a shot during the fourth One-Day International cricket match between South Africa and India at the Wanderers stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

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Lt. Gen. Scott Miller, the Commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney Hughes, USARCENT PAO).

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In this March 27, 2016, file photo, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gives a speech to his followers before entering the highly fortified Green Zone, in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Sadr, the influential maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)