F-16 Fighting Falcon aircrafts are prepared for a mission during Operation Noble Defender at Pittufik Space Base in Greenland on January 30, 2025. (US Air Force)
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)
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs Priti Patel MP listens during a press conference on May 19, 2025, in London, England. (Getty Images)
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar meets with Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on January 6, 2026. (Getty Images)
A US B-52 Stratofortress (R) is escorted by a South Korean F-15K fighter jet (L) as it flies over the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, on January 10, 2016. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
A satellite image shows what CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative says appears to be concrete structures with retractable roofs on the artificial island Fiery Cross reefs in the South China Sea in this image taken February 7, 2017 and released on Fe
Pakistani devotees gather outside the shrine of 13th century Muslim Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar a day after a bomb blew up at the shrine in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, February 17, 2017. (ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office of the White House, January 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn (2ndL) attends a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the East Room of the White House February 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)