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
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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)
African National Congress President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks to the National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe before a Lekotla meeting on August 4, 2024, in Boksburg, South Africa. (Per-Anders Pettersson via Getty Images)
A flag outside of the United States Agency for International Development headquarters is seen on February 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, US President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sit together outside the White House on March 26, 1979. (Wally McNamee/Corbis via Getty Images)
Standard Missile-3 Block 1B guided missile successfully intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile target off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, on October 13, 2013. (DVIDS)
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United States President Donald Trump during his address at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 23, 2025. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
The United States Supreme Court is shown after members of the court issued major rulings on cell phone privacy and copyright law June 25, 2014, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
Border patrol officers pull barbed wires as immigrants wait at the United States border on March 20, 2024, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)