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)
A Standard Missile-6 demonstrating its ability to intercept ballistic missiles in their final seconds of flight during live fire tests July 28-Aug. 1, 2015, aboard the USS John Paul Jones. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency
A police officer inspects a vehicle after a bomb went off near Gulbahar Police Station in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 24, 2015. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have claimed responsibility for the attack. (Asianet-Pakistan / Barcroft Indi via Getty Images)
A P-3C patrol plane of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force flying over the Senkaku Islands/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, October 13, 2011. (JAPAN POOL/AFP/Getty Images)
Military personnel arrive in a Chinook before Iraqi soldiers take part in a live-fire exercise for under the surveillance of US-led coalition forces at Basmaya base, Iraq on January 27, 2016. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)