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)
Delegates attend the second meeting of North Atlantic Council of foreign ministers on December 4, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana via Getty Images)
Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden, Fumio Kishida, and Narendra Modi attend the Quad Fellowship Founding Celebration event on May 24, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan. (Yuichi Yamazaki via Getty Images)
Soldiers hold US and Japanese flags during a welcome ceremony for Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 27, 2019. (Brendan SmialowskiAFP via Getty Images)