Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Germany's FGS Hamburg (F220), left, and the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), right, with the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Bridge (T-AOE 10), center, in the Arabian Sea on March 23, 2013. (U.S. Navy/Released)
Former Deputy Director, Center for American Seapower
Bryan McGrath
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A woman and child run through the smoke after an air-strike staged by Syrian regime forces in Duma district, Damascus, Syria on September 28, 2015. (Mohammed Khair/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Russian President Valdimir Putin during the 70th annual UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters, September 28, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
United States Secretary of State John Kerry poses with Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran Javad Zarif during a bilateral talk at the United Nations headquarters on September 26, 2015, at the United Nations in New York. (DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)