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)
President Tsai Ing-wen receives Hudson's Global Leadership award from President and CEO John P. Walters and Sarah Stern, chair of the Hudson Board of Trustees, on March 30, 2023, in New York. (Taiwan Presidential Office via Flickr)
Senator Tom Cotton and Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead at Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn Award Gala on December 11, 2022, in New York City.