Chinese military personnel take part in a rehearsal ahead of a parade commemorating the eightieth anniversary of victory in World War II in Beijing on August 20, 2025. (Pedro Pardo via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
US Commerce Secretary Howard William Lutnick and Japanese Minister for Economic Revitalization Ryosei Akazawa shake hands on on September 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) sails in formation during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise on July 28, 2022. (DVIDS)
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
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
A soldier with the 781st Military Intelligence Battalion conducts cyberspace operations at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California on May 9, 2017. (Army Cyber Command photo by Bill Roche)
A US Air Force B-1B long-range bomber and F-16 fighter jet fly over the Canadian Arctic during North American Aerospace Defense Command’s Arctic air defense exercise, "Amalgam Dart 21-2" on March 24, 2021. (US Air Force)
The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Louisiana transits Puget Sound following a 41-month engineered refueling overhaul at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility on February 9, 2023. (US Navy photo by Brian G. Reynolds)
An F-22 Raptor assigned to the 94th Fighter Squadron, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, takes off for a Red Flag 23-1 mission at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada on January 24, 2023. (US Air Force Photo by William R. Lewis)