In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
An aerial view of Tesla cars recharging at a Tesla Supercharger station, located next to Pasadena Water and Power, on April 14, 2022, in Pasadena, California. (Mario Tama via Getty Images)
The medium-displacement unmanned surface vessel Sea Hunter sits pierside at Naval Base San Diego during the Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One Establishment ceremony on May 13, 2022, in San Diego, California. (US Navy photo by Kevin C. Leitner)
Senior Airman Andrew Parrish performs maintenance on the forward section of an ICBM's reentry system on February 2, 2018, at the F. E. Warren Air Force Base missile complex in Wyoming. (Braydon Williams via DVIDS)
Cases of TNT and gunpowder shipped from the United States under Lend-Lease are stacked in a tunnel in western England dug out of solid rock 100 feet underground. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)