Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
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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)
Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
A Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel and the guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) operate in the Arabian Gulf on January 8, 2023. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeremy R. Boan)
Soldiers stand guard next to an Army vehicle that was destroyed during an operation to arrest Ovidio Guzman in Culiacan Sinaloa State, Mexico, on January 7, 2023. (Juan Carolos Cruz/AFP via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden hosts a bilateral meeting with President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. of the Philippines on September 21, 2022, at the InterContinental Barclay in New York. (Adam Schultz via Official White House)
Coup supporters wave flags during the protest against a possible military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States bloc and sanctions in Niamey, Niger, on August 20, 2023. (Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen address a press conference in front of a F-16 fighter jet in the hangar of the Skrydstrup Airbase in Vojens, Denmark, on August 20, 2023. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)