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)
A protester raises a placard during a demonstration to condemn China's aggression in the disputed South China Sea in front of the Chinese Consulate in Makati, Metro Manila, on February 6, 2024. (Jam Sta Rosa/AFP and Getty Images)
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing at a railway station on January 6, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
United States Marines prepare an RQ-7B Shadow during an exercise as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course 2-15 near Yuma, Arizona, on April 10, 2015. (US Marine Corps vis DVIDS)
A US Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 takes off from Gwangju Air Base, Republic of Korea, on April 19, 2023. (Tyler Harmon via DVIDS)
Japan's Self-Defense Forces 1st Airborne Brigade conduct descent training with allies US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Philippines on January 7, 2024, at Camp Narashino training area in Tokyo, Japan. (David Mareuil/Anadolu via Getty Images)