A view of the industrial and militarized Russian seaport city of Murmansk on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Russia, Arctic, Europe

A view of a nuclear powered submarine in the industrial and militarized Russian seaport city of Murmansk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia, Arctic, Europe

Operation AUTHOR I plaque commemorating the cooperation of the French Resistance with the Allied troops under General Patton to secure supplies, Saint-Michel-en-Greve (Breton: Lokmikael-an-Traezh), Cotes-d'Armor, Brittany, France, Europe

Relief band with depictions of military operations on Trajan's Column, Rome, Italy, Europe

A Lockheed C-130 Hercules on loan from the Italian Air Force for logistics operations between Christchurch;New Zealand) and the Mario Zucchelli base. Although military activities are strictly forbidden in Antarctic territory by the Treaty of Madrid, polar-operating countries frequently use the skills and equipment of their armies for polar logistics. Victoria Land, Antarctica