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)
Afghan security personnel stand guard along the road amid ongoing fight between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters in Kandahar on July 9, 2021 (Photo by JAVED TANVEER/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian battlecruiser 'Pjotr Velikij' passes the Great Belt Bridge as it leads nuclear submarine 'Dmitrij Donskoj' through the Danish waters on July 21, 2017 near Korsor, Denmark. (Photo by Ole Jensen - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
A general view shows the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain with a hole on its left portside after a collision with oil tanker, outside Changi naval base in Singapore on August 21, 2017. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Members of a People's Liberation Army band stand together at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party on July 1, 2021 at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
U.S. soldiers move in formation while controlling unmanned vehicles as part of an exercise in 2016 at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii. (Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal/U.S. Air Force)