With a series of recent treaties and alliances, Canberra is seeking to prevent Beijing from establishing a military foothold in the Pacific Ocean.

For roughly 1,700 years, Polynesian seafarers stopped at Samoa and Tonga. Then, in what became one of history’s most remarkable bursts of migration, they pushed east across the Pacific and settled

On July 1, U.S. Pacific Air Forces released its first-ever image of a combat drone flying beside a crewed fighter, an F-15EX over the Philippine Sea. The drone wasn't American. It's the MQ-28 Ghost Bat,

Recent commentary downplaying the U.S. Army’s role in the Indo-Pacific misrepresents the complex security landscape and landpower’s essential place within it. Assertions that the Army is on a “dead-end ride to Asia” are short-sighted, overlooking ...

Open a book of maps and look for the “Indo-Pacific” region – it likely won’t be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to how many countries think about strategy and security. It describes a region spanning two oceans and dozens of countries ...

Waves of higher, warmer water move eastward across the Pacific Ocean a few months before an El Niño emerges. Several have shown up in 2026 satellite data. Sea level data from a satellite launched by NASA and European partners shows that a swell of warm ...

A leak in the Pacific Ocean’s floor has scientists concerned it could fuel “the big one,” a magnitude-9.0 earthquake that would be one of the strongest earthquakes the U.S. has ever seen, and has been the source of fears in the Pacific Northwest for ...