Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Military personnel arrive in a Chinook before Iraqi soldiers take part in a live-fire exercise for under the surveillance of US-led coalition forces at Basmaya base, Iraq on January 27, 2016. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) alongside the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Rainier (T-AOE 7). (DoD/Released)
An F/A-18C Hornet aircraft attached to Strike Fighter Squadron 97 launches off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) while in the Arabian Sea on Jan. 15, 2012. (DoD/Released)
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull arrives at the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit on November 15, 2015 in Antalya, Turkey. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
A soldier fires a portable air defense rocket during the International military games 'Masters of Antiaircraft Battle - 2015' outside the Russian southern town of Yeisk on August 6, 2015. (SERGEI VENYAVSKY/AFP/Getty Images)