A MIM-104 Patriot Surface-to-Air Missile System fires as part of a bilateral live-fire exercise with military members from the Royal Netherlands Ground-based Air Defense Command at McGregor Range in New Mexico on May 11, 2024. (US Army)
A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Uzushio-class submarine participates in an international fleet review at Sagami Bay on November 6, 2022, off Yokosuka, Japan. (Getty Images)
Infantry soldiers from the Givati brigade of the Israel Defense Forces train with new, high-tech weapons and computers at the army's urban warfare training base on March 22, 2005, in southern Israel. (Photo by Yael Bar Hillal/IDF via Getty Images)
French President Emmanuel Macron greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Antoine Gyori-Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
A small boat transfers a Romanian boarding team from Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) ship ROS Regele Ferdinand to SNMG2 flagship HMS Duncan on February 7, 2018. (NATO photo by GBRN LPhot Paul Hall)
A protestor holds a Taurus missile sign at a demonstration to show support for Ukraine in Cologne, Germany, on January 6, 2024. (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on April 26, 2024. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)