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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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 28: President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the White House, January 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. Also pictured at right, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. On Saturday, President Trump is making several phone calls with world leaders from Japan, Germany, Russia, France and Australia. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Commander of the NATO battalion battlegroup and the German contingent in Lithuania Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Huber stands in front of (L to R) the Belgian, German, French and NATO flags during a welcoming ceremony in Rukla, Lithuania, on February 7 , 2017.
Lithuania welcomed several hundred German troops who will lead a multinational NATO battalion, one of four the alliance is deploying on a rotational basis this year to deter Russia by beefing up its eastern flank. / AFP / Petras Malukas (Photo credit should read PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images)
(FILES) A picture dated September 21, 2012, shows a Raad air defense system carrying Taer missiles being displayed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, during an annual military parade which marks Iran's eight-year war with Iraq, in the capital Tehran. Iranian forces have carried out what they called cyber warfare tactics for the first time as the Islamic republic's naval units staged manoeuvres in the key Strait of Hormuz, media reports said on December 31, 2012. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with CENTCOM Commander Joseph Votel (R) as he arrives on stage to speak following a visit to the US Central Command and Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base on February 6, 2017 in Tampa, Florida.
President Donald Trump on Monday paid his first visit to US Central Command, meeting officers who will form the tip of the spear in implementing his new strategy to defeat the Islamic State group. / AFP / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
US Defense Secretary James Mattis (C) attends a meeting with Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida (not pictured) in Tokyo on February 3, 2017.
Any nuclear attack by North Korea would trigger an "effective and overwhelming" response, US Defence Secretary James Mattis said February 3 as he sought to reassure Asian allies rattled by President Donald Trump's isolationist rhetoric. / AFP / POOL / DAVID MAREUIL (Photo credit should read DAVID MAREUIL/AFP/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, VA - JANUARY 27: U.S. Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis greets President Donald Trump at the Pentagon on January 27, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
U.S. Soldiers with Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group fast-rope from a CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft during exercise Emerald Warrior 2011 at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., March 1, 2011. Emerald Warrior is an annual two-week joint/combined tactical exercise sponsored by U.S. Special Operations Command designed to leverage lessons learned from operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom to provide trained and ready forces to combatant commanders. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. DeNoris Mickle, U.S. Air Force/Released)
HONOLULU, HI - DECEMBER 07: Planes from the 199th Fighter Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard and the 19th Fighter Squadron, U.S. Air Force perform a missing man fly over, over the USS Arizona Memorial during a ceremony commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at Kilo Pier on December 07, 2016 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
A picture shows the new medium-range surface to surface missile, named Sejil-2, at an undisclosed location in Iran prior to its test-firing on May 20, 2009. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully test-fired the new missile, drawing a warning from Israel that Europe too should now worry about the Islamic republic's ballistic programme. AFP PHOTO/STR/FARS NEWS (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - OCTOBER 22: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by the U.S. Military prior to transmission.) Razor wire lines the fence of the "Gitmo" maximum security detention center on October 22, 2016 at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. military's Joint Task Force Guantanamo is still holding 60 detainees at the prison, down from a previous total of 780. On his second day in office in 2008 President Obama issued an executive order to close the prison, which has failed because of political opposition in the U.S. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
An Iraqi man and a girl fleeing the Islamic State (IS) group controlled Rashidiyah neighbourhood arrive to the Arabi neighbourhood north of Mosul on January 22, 2017 as a military operation against the jihadists continues.
Iraqi forces retook two areas from the Islamic State group in Mosul, sealing their control of the east bank three months into an offensive to reclaim the city.
/ AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, VA - JANUARY 21: U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis (L) is greeted and escorted by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford (R) as he arrives for the first day January 21, 2017 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Retired General Mattis was confirmed as President Donald Trump's defense secretary by the Senate and sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence yesterday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump speaks at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on January 21, 2017.
Trump told the CIA Saturday it had his fervent support as he paid a visit to mend fences after publicly rejecting its assessment that Russia tried to help him win the US election. "I am with you 1,000 percent," Trump said in a short address to CIA staff after his visit to the agency headquarters in Virginia.
/ AFP / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. In todays inauguration ceremony Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States.
