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)
US Defense Secretary James Mattis (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on February 3, 2017. (EUGENE HOSHIKO/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, with Chief Strategist Steve Bannon (R) and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, from the Oval Office on January 28, 2017. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
US soldiers and South Korean soldiers participate in a river crossing exercise on May 30, 2013 in Yeoncheon-gun, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
(L to R) President-elect Donald Trump and Jack Ma, Chairman of Alibaba Group, at Trump Tower, January 9, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)