Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers an address at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside of Moscow, on June 1, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / SPUTNIK / AFP via Getty Images)
A US Army M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System fires a rocket as part of Nordic Strike 22 at Vidsel Test Range, Sweden, on September 27, 2022. (US Army Photo by Spc. Devin Klecan)
Xi Jinping speaks during a news conference, displayed on a television screen at a shopping area on June 30, 2022, in Hong Kong. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inspects an honor guard ahead of a Self Defense Forces (SDF) senior officers' meeting at the Ministry of Defense on September 17, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers remarks at the inauguration of Hudson Institute headquarters on March 30, 2016. Also pictured is Distinguished Fellow Ken Weinstein, former president and CEO. (Photo credit: James O'Gara)
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence on April 1, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa attend an event in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)