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)
Polish President Andrzej Duda and US President Donald Trump shake hands after a joint press conference at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017. (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/Getty Images)
U.S. Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan hosts a multi-lateral meeting with Asian nations, at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2019, Singapore, May 31, 2019. (Lisa Ferdinando)
U.S. President Donald Trump inspects a guard of honour, during his Ceremonial Welcome in the Buckingham Palace Garden on day 1 of his State Visit to the UK on June 3, 2019. (Indigo/Getty Images)
Newly elected Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison speaks at the Liberal Party reception at the Sofitel Wentworth Hotel on May 18, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. (Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)