Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
U.S. army soldiers look at anti-missile system David's Sling during the joint Israeli-U.S. military training "Juniper Cobra" at the Hatzor Airforce Base in Israel on March 8, 2018.(JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
Turkish Armed Forces' armoured vehicles and armored personnel carriers, move towards to Turkey's Syrian border as they are being dispatched to support the units at the border, in Kilis, Turkey on October 09, 2019. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
The Israeli and United States flags are projected on the walls of the ramparts of Jerusalem's Old City, to mark one year since the transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on May 15, 2019. (AHMAD GHARABLI/Getty Images)