Defense Strategy

A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)

Ukrainian military personnel control the unmanned ground vehicle platform Rys Pro equipped with a remote-controlled machine-gun turret during training on April 18, 2025, in an unspecified area of Ukraine. (Serhii Mykhalchuk via Getty Images)

A service member working with Command Task Force 66 unloads a Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft into the Port of Uskta during exercise Baltic Operations 2025 (BALTOPS 25) on June 8, 2025. (US Navy photo)

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The Kerch Bridge connecting Russia to occupied Crimea is seen on October 13, 2022. (Stringer via Getty Images)

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, President Vladimir Putin meets with Moscow-installed head of the Donetsk region in Russian-controlled Ukraine, Denis Pushilin (not pictured), at the Kremlin in Moscow on August 4, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel via Getty Images)

Leaders of nine nations applaud the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords at the Elysee Palace in Paris on December 14, 1995. (Peter Turnley via Getty Images)

The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Kentucky maneuvers during a routine armed air escort exercise on April 24, 2025. (US Navy photo)

A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)

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London during the Battle of Britain on September 7, 1940. (Keystone via Getty Images)

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