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)
US service members participated in a joint electronic warfare training, where Marines and soldiers learned and effectively utilized electronic warfare equipment in smaller sized combat elements to enhance combat lethality. (US Marine Corps photo by Patrick King)
A Ukrainian soldier with an assault rifle stands amid wreckage as debris lie in the garage at a trolleybus depot on January 27, 2023, in Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
US Marines with 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, drive an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System onto a US Air Force C-5 Galaxy during a loading exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton in California on February 7, 2023. (US Marine Corps photo by Cameron Hermanet)
A Ukrainian army artillery crew dismounts from a self-propelled 122mm howitzer after firing on a Russian position on February 18, 2023, near Bakhmut, Ukraine. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Members of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army prepare to fire a rocket propelled grenade while testing weapons systems on February 25, 2023, in Donbas, Ukraine. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Participants drill shooting positions at a combat training day hosted by a local paramilitary civil formation called TSEL on February 22, 2023, in Lviv, Ukraine. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)