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)
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)
A Vietnamese fisheries surveillance force vessel (R) is chased by Chinese Maritime Police Bureau ships on May 27, 2014 (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during their joint press conference in the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 8, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) conducts a vertical replenishment at sea in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility, South China Sea, July 8, 2012. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Declan Barnes/Released)
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (R) with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) at the Great Hall of the People on January 7, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Andy Wong-Pool/Getty Imgaes)