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)
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and President Joe Biden take part in a trilateral Meeting on March 13, 2023, in San Diego, United States. (Simon Walker via Flickr)
Ukrainian soldiers prepare to fire a US-made M109 self-propelled howitzer on the frontline, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on February 17, 2023. (Photo by Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A trader holds a placard reading "prevent unemployment from rising" during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on August 23, 2023. (Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with China's President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia, on November 15, 2022. (James Brickwood/Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)