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)
155mm artillery shells in the production shop at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant on April 12, 2023, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (Hannah Beier via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers patrol with a Bradley Fighting Vehicle as the Russia-Ukraine War continues in Avdiivka, Donbas, Ukraine, on December 4, 2023. (Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Troops take part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth founding anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Photo by Zhang Hongxiang/Xinhua via Getty)
SS Delaware makes its way down the Thames River and past the City of New London after departing Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, on Monday, November 28, 2022. (US Navy via DVIDS)
A makeshift memorial made of thousands of small flags with messages to those who have died in the war stands in the snow on December 8 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ed Ram/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden delivers a statement urging Congress to pass his national security supplemental from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 6, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)