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

British war ship at anchor in the outer harbor of Stanley on East Island, Falkland Islands

British International helicopter flying over the outer harbor of Stanley on East Island, Falkland Islands

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