A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on September 27, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers practice firing a Browning heavy machine gun on February 20, 2025, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Roman Chop/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Maxar satellite imagery from December 12, 2024, of Iran's new drone ship (known as the Shahid Bagheri) is anchored offshore near the Iranian naval port of Bandar Abbas in the Persian Gulf. (Maxar Technologies via Getty Images)
Presidential advisor Henry A. Kissinger gestures as he talks with President Nixon late November 25th at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. (Getty Images)
China's President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. (Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images)