Air Force Palace, Bari waterfront, Bari, Apulia, Italy

La Candelaria Bastion and Parque Genoves, old town, Cadiz, Andalucia, Spain, Europe

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

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

The village of Wekan in the mountains of Jebel Akhdar in Oman.

View of the watchtower at Gruissan in Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Aude, Gruissan, village in Circulade testifies of a Medieval origin, strategic sign of defense and Christian symbol

A Rockwell B-1 Lancer supersonic strategic bomber at the Hill Aerospace Museum in Utah.

A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic heavy bomber in the Hill Aerospace Museum in Utah.

Palmyra, Syria - January, 2008: Roman ruins in the desert. Palmyra or Tadmore was a 2nd century AD desert oasis used as a strategic staging post for caravans traveling between the Mediterranean Sea and the east. It was also settled by the Assyrians, and Persians.

Young boys on donkeys watch over flocks of goats, sheep and donkeys near the top of the Shebar Pass, which crosses into the Province of Bamiyan. Due to a devastating drought in the region, dry wheat farming has failed for three years from 1998-2002 and the forage is extremely sparse, The pass is a strategic point leading into the Central Highlands, the Koh-i-Baba range and the Hazarajat, at the end of the Hindu Kush. Most of the people of this region are of the Hazara tribe, and are Shi'a Moslems who have been persecuted for centuries by many of the Pashtun rulers of Afghanistan, who are from the Sunni sect.