In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
Guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer carrying Tomahawk land-attack missiles, in the Atlantic Ocean, August 2, 2012. (U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (C) speaks as President Barack Obama (L) and Vice President Joe Biden look on during a press conference announcing Hagel's resignation, November 24, 2014. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement in Vienna on the status of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, November 24, 2014. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
A member of Russia's delegation looks at a monitor showing the speech of US President Barack Obama during the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on March 25, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinians celebrate an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue while standing in front of a poster of the attackers in the southern Gaza Strip on November 18, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)