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)
Russian warcrafts hit the Syrian opposition controlled town Daret Ezza in Aleppo, Syria on October 13, 2015. (Mamun Abu Omer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis operates in the Pacific Ocean during an exercise with other naval vessels operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area, Feb. 12, 2009. (DoD/Released)