Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
China's guided-missile destroyer Zhanjiang attends the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition on May 26, 2023, in Langkawi, Malaysia. (Zhang Hui via Getty Images)
The US Capitol building is shrouded in haze as smoke from wildfires in Canada brings unhealthy air quality to the East Coast in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2023. ( Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua via Getty Images)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers the keynote address during the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in the Loy Henderson Auditorium of the State Department in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Kevin McCarthy speaks with Tsai Ing-wen during a bipartisan meeting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on April 5, 2023. (Frederic J. Brown via Getty Images)