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)
The U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, fly in the Delta Formation over the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush off the Florida coast near Mayport Naval Station, Fla., in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec.10, 2013. (DoD/Released)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Russian armament exhibition Expo Arms-2011 September 9 2011 in the Urals town of Nizhny Tagil, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
Then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C), Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller (R) and former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (L) at the gas compressor station 'Portovaya' outside Vyborg, September 6, 2011. (ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R) and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey on March 9, 2016. (Ahmet Izgi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)