Defense Strategy

A US Air Force F-35A Lightning II flies over the Pacific Ocean near Misawa Air Base in Japan on September 26, 2025. (US Air Force)

An artillery crew fires an 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer during a combat mission in the Zaporizhzhia sector of Ukraine on August 20, 2025. (Getty Images)

US soldiers perform refuel an Apache helicopter while it runs during the Saber Junction 25 exercise at Joint Multinational Readiness Center’s Hohenfels Training Area in Germany on September 9, 2025. (US Army National Guard photo)

Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles and Japan’s Defence Minister General Nakatani hold a joint press announcement aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Mogami-class stealth frigate JS Mikuma at the JMSDF naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, on September 5, 2025. (Getty Images)

Two US Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs fly in formation prior to conducting air-to-air refueling over Utah on July 1, 2025. (US Air Force photo)

President Donald Trump speaks during a September 11 observance event in the courtyard of the Pentagon on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)

(School of War)

An F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South China Sea on June 5, 2025. (US Navy)

Smoke rises over the government headquarters in Kyiv following Russian drone and missile strikes on September 7, 2025. (Getty Images)

A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)

(School of War)

A soldier from the 47th Brigade's mortar crew, Varvara with the call sign 'Kosa', aims a mortar for firing on August 12, 2025 in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Vitalii Nosach via Getty Images)