The Chinese navy was operating within Australia's 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone off its southwest coast.

The United States’ Pacific territories, like all the Pacific Islands, face a challenge to diversify their economies away from reliance on China.

After so long on US soil, the shift of B-1B bombers to an overseas base does mark a change in American military aviation ...

Recently, the military has built new bases and expanded Africa-focused operations in Sicily. During the Cold War, U.S. forces occupied hundreds of bases in Japan and the Pacific to surround China ...

The tiny Pacific nation of Palau has urged the United States military to build bases on its territory - which lies in a region where Washington is pushing back against growing Chinese influence.

The Trump administration's focus on the price, not value, of alliances could affect security pledges and risks to Taiwan, ...

China is flexing its military muscle in the region to show that it will not wait for the Trump administration to decide how ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor and other military and naval installations on Oahu, brought the United States into World War II. Today, Hawaii is the headquarters of the United States Pacific Command ...

But today, the military landscape in the Pacific looks starkly different ... doing is distributing their forces widely because big bases are vulnerable to missile attack," said Sam Roggeveen ...

Part one of a two-part series evaluating the evolving network of US bases in the Asia-Pacific.

The United States formally left the Manta military base in Ecuador on Friday at 9.00 a.m. local time, at a ceremony in which Ecuadorian authorities took full control of the Pacific Coast facilities.