Iran Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defense Ministers' Meeting on June 26, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Fu Tian via Getty Images)
Vehicles waiting to be loaded onto roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ships for export on August 12, 2025, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. (Getty Images)
US Commerce Secretary Howard William Lutnick and Japanese Minister for Economic Revitalization Ryosei Akazawa shake hands on on September 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
US Navy sailors and Newport News Shipbuilding workers reinstall the port side anchor onboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in Newport News, Virginia, on August 18, 2023. (US Navy)
The United States Air Force 354th Air Expeditionary Wing and Marine Aircraft Group 12 performed a capabilities demonstration during a pre-planned readiness exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, July 7, 2022. (US Marine Corps)
An artillery crew fires an 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer during a combat mission in the Zaporizhzhia sector of Ukraine on August 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles and Japan’s Defence Minister General Nakatani hold a joint press announcement aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Mogami-class stealth frigate JS Mikuma at the JMSDF naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, on September 5, 2025. (Getty Images)
US soldiers perform refuel an Apache helicopter while it runs during the Saber Junction 25 exercise at Joint Multinational Readiness Center’s Hohenfels Training Area in Germany on September 9, 2025. (US Army National Guard photo)