In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
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
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
Ukrainian servicemen fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions in eastern Ukraine on December 28, 2022. (Photo by Sameer al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images)
An unmanned surface vehicle (USV) conducts testing of an autonomous over-the-horizon solution conceived by student researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) during a Navy exercise off the coast of California on August 19, 2023. (US Navy photo)
A Ukrainian serviceman holds a Stinger anti-aircraft weapon onboard a Maritime Guard of the State Border Service of Ukraine boat as it patrols in the northwestern Black Sea on December 18, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with representatives from the American business, strategic, and academic communities at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Shen Hong via Getty Images)
Members of the Taliban gather to commemorate the one year anniversary of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in Kabul on August 21, 2022. (Marcus Yam via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden listens to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a press conference at the Camp David Trilateral Summit in Maryland on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)