Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile in support of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026. (US Navy)
Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force disembark from a US Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey as part of joint military drill Operation Keen Sword in Kumamoto, Japan, on November 16, 2022. (Marine Corps photo by Justin Marty)
A destroyed Russian tank stands by the road in front of an orthodox temple in the liberated town of Sviatohirsk, Ukraine, on November 30, 2022. (Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
An elderly woman grieves next to the grave of a Ukrainian soldier during Ukraine's Army Day in Lviv, Ukraine, on December 6, 2022. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP via Getty Images)
Paratroopers take part in the Caucasus 2020 joint military drills, which included Russian and Belarusian troops, on September 25, 2020, in Southern Russia. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian servicemen at a site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian missile attack near Kyiv, Ukraine on November 23, 2022. (Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)