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)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Jerusalem, Israel, on January 31, 2023. (State Department via Flickr)
Airmen load cargo during a security assistance mission providing Ukraine with critical capabilities to defend against Russian aggression at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on January 20, 2023. (US Air Force photo by Marco A. Gomez)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman at Al Salam Palace in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
An F-16 Fighting Falcon lands at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany on April 30, 2022, after a three-month rotational deployment at Fetesti Air Base in Romania. (US Air Force photo by Anthony Plyler)
The Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system intercepts rockets fired by Hamas in the sky above the Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021. (Anas Baba/AFP via Getty Images)
Australian soldiers render honor as Australian Deputy Prime Minister of Defense Richard Marles meets with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. (US Army photo by Mr. Leroy Council)
The United Kingdom’s carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force led by Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer JS Ise conduct multiple carrier strike group operations with US Navy carrier strike groups led by flagships USS Ronald Reagan and USS Carl Vinson in the Philippine Sea on October 3, 2021. (DVIDS)