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)
Henry Kissinger accepts the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service at the Pentagon on May 9, 2016. (US Secretary of Defense via Flickr)
A boy stands by the statue of Brigadier General Gouverneur K. Warren atop Little Round Top at the Gettysburg battlefield on July 3, 2005, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping shake hands before meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, on November 14, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden wave as they board Air Force One at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
The US Capitol building as seen from the National Mall at dawn on November 8, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Robert Miller/The Washington Post via Getty Images)