Russian President Vladimir Putin points at a map while inspecting the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait, linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula, while aboard a helicopter on March 18, 2016. (Mikhail Klimenty/AFP/Getty Images)
A painting of the World War I Battle of Jutland shows the sinking hit of the British battlecruiser HMS Indefatigable shortly before its explosion on May 31, 1916. (Willy Stöwer/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Indian workers stand alongside the FDN-2 Indian Navy floating dock as it is launched at a shipyard in Chennai on June 20, 2017.
Indian-designed and constructed, the platform is capable of docking warships of up to 8000 tons to enable repair and maintenance work. / AFP PHOTO / ARUN SANKAR (Photo credit should read ARUN SANKAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Jan. 14, 2011) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) is underway as part of the Enterprise Carrier Strike Group. The strike group is deploying to support maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Anna Wade/Released)
Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, talks to Vice Admiral Alexander Lopez, Commander of Western Command, during a Senate Inquiry of the disputed islands at the South China Sea in Manila on May 7, 2015. The Philippines claimed that increased attempts by China to drive off Filipino aircraft from a disputed South China Sea island garrisoned by Manila have raised the prospect of a confrontation. AFP PHOTO / Jay DIRECTO (Photo credit should read JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama (R) walks past Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang (L) after a press conference at the International Convention Center in Hanoi on May 23, 2016.
Obama visits Vietnam for the first time making him the third US President to visit the South East Asian country since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. / AFP / pool / LUONG THAI LINH / POOL (Photo credit should read LUONG THAI LINH / POOL/AFP/Getty Images)
BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 16: Chinese People's Liberation Army navy soldiers of a guard of honor rehearse before a welcoming ceremony for Bahrain's King Hamad Bin Eisa Al Khalifa outside the Great Hall of People on September 16, 2013 in Beijing, China. At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain paid a state visit to China from September 14 to 16. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)
During the first Gult War, named Operation Desert Storm, American soldiers wave to the camera from a truck as their convoy moves into Iraq, February 24, 1991. (Photo by Ken Jarecke/Department Of Defense (DOD)/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
US Navy personnel raise their flag during the bilateral maritime exercise between the Philippine Navy and US Navy dubbed Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT 2014) aboard the USS John S. McCain in the South China Sea near waters claimed by Beijing on June 28, 2014. The United States and the Philippines kicked off joint naval exercises in the South China Sea near waters claimed by Beijing, amid tense territorial rows between China and its neighbours. AFP PHOTO/NOEL CELIS/POOL (Photo credit should read NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)
