Defense Strategy

Ukrainian soldier demonstrates firing the MBT-NLAW provided by the United Kingdom. (Alex Chan Tsz Yuk via Getty Images)

A Ukrainian soldier looks at the sky after hearing the sound of a nearby drone at the Bakhmut front line in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on January 13, 2024. (Photo by Ignacio Marin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

An F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, attached to the "Fighting Swordsmen" of Strike Fighter Squadron 32, takes off from the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) on July 10, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean. (DVIDS)

An American flag flies from a crane as a construction worker helps build a mixed-use apartment complex on January 25, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The Rubymar cargo ship sinking off the coast of Yemen, damaged in a missile strike by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels on February 25, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)

A joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on March 8, 2023. (NATO via Flickr)

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A US Air Force F-35A Lightning II refuels during exercise Mobility Guardian 23 on July 18, 2023, over the Pacific Ocean. (US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christian Sullivan)

Ukrainian soldiers of a tank unit continue their military mobility to prepare for combat as the Russia-Ukraine War continues after the second year anniversary in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on March 1, 2024. (Jose Colon via Getty Images)

Ukrainian servicemen of the Skala battalion perform a medical evacuation during a field military exercise in the Donetsk region on February 3, 2024. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)

An Arabian Fox MAST-13 unmanned surface vessel conducts surveillance in the Arabian Gulf on November 21. (DVIDS)

A sign depicting a cutout of the Bahamas-flagged cargo vessel Galaxy Leader is raised by a protester behind a man carrying a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher during a pro-Palestinian rally in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on February 7, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images)