Chinese military personnel take part in a rehearsal ahead of a parade commemorating the eightieth anniversary of victory in World War II in Beijing on August 20, 2025. (Pedro Pardo via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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)
Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) sails in formation during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise on July 28, 2022. (DVIDS)
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
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
Yemen's Houthis held a military parade commemorating the ninth anniversary of their takeover of the capital Sana'a on September 21, 2023, in Sana'a, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier is placed in trenches retaken from the Russian army on the Vuhledar front line as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on December 1, 2023. (Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Communal workers walk next to a crater and destroyed houses following a Russian shelling in Kyiv on December 11, 2023. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during their meeting in Amur Oblast, Russia, on September 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov/POOL/AFP via 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)
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)
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)
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)