US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and President Donald Trump at the White House on November 18, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet at the White House on October 17, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
A counter small unmanned aircraft system program monitors the skies for adversary drones during Astral Knight 24 at Powidz Air Base in Poland on May 13, 2024. (US Air Force)
An intelligence specialist activates a Skydio X2 small unmanned aerial system to survey the defensive line for opposing forces during a simulated assault and seizure at Glen Airfield in Queensland, Australia, in July 2025. (US Marine Corps)
US Steel Corporation workers rally outside the company's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, supporting the takeover by Japan's Nippon Steel, on September 4, 2024. (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)
The newly elected leader and sitting chairperson of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Shigeru Ishiba, speaks at a press conference following his election on September 27, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool/Getty Images)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of States Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, and Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara attend a joint press conference following the US-Japan foreign and defense ministers’ meeting on the sidelines of the Quad meeting at the Iikura Guest House on July 28, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
A billboard promoting contract army service with the slogan reading "Serving Russia is a real job" sits in Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2022. (Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images)