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Ukrainian soldiers train with armed ground robots at an undisclosed location in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on September 3, 2025. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump speaks during a September 11 observance event in the courtyard of the Pentagon on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
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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)
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Smoke rises over the government headquarters in Kyiv following Russian drone and missile strikes on September 7, 2025. (Getty Images)
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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)
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Somali National Army soldiers escort members of the press to hideouts used by the terrorist group al-Shabaab in the Sabiid-Aanole areas of Somalia on June 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Iran Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defense Ministers' Meeting on June 26, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Fu Tian via Getty Images)
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