Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
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)
President Joe Biden disembarks Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, January 16, 2023. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
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 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)