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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)
A protestor holds a sign outside the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center on opening night of the opera, 'The Death of Klinghoffer' on October 20, 2014 in New York City. (Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (C) delivers a speech as part of the annual Army Day military parade on April 18, 2014 in Tehran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
President Obama with Defense Secretary Hagel (3rd L), U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Odienaro (2nd L), Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Welsh (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey (R), May 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty)
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) walks with US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Martin Indyk at Ben Gurion International Airport on January 5, 2014 in Tel Aviv. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)