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)
Pakistani security forces stands guard outside the headquarters of Axact, a software firm during raids by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 27, 2015. (Qaisar Khan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Pakistani media personnel and local residents gather outside the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani greeted by Prime Minisyer Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee on April 28, 2015 in New Delhi, India. (Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)