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)
US President Joe Biden, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meets virtually with members of the "Quad" alliance of Australia, India, Japan and the US, in the White House on March 12, 2021. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP/Getty Images)
The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group transits in formation Jan. 25, 2020 (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anthony Rivera)
Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel stand guard beside a banner installed by the supporters and activists of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a protest demanding ban on Popular Front of India (Getty Images)
An Indian Muslim devotee offers prayers during Eid al-Adha at Jama Masjid in New Delhi on October 6, 2014 (Photo credit should read Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
An Indian paramilitary trooper stands alert near encounter spot in Pampore area south of Srinagar, Indian Administered Kashmir on 06 November 2020 (Photo by Muzamil Mattoo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Qamar Javed Bajwa delivers a speech at the 2018 Munich Security Conference on February 17, 2018 in Munich, Germany (Photo by Sebastian Widmann/Getty Images).
Employees prepare themselves before getting inside a lab where Covishield, AstraZeneca-Oxford's Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine is being manufactured, at India's Serum Institute in Pune on January 22, 2021.