Pacific Storm

Pacific Storm returns to the world of White Sun War as China launches a broader campaign across the Pacific, using autonomous weapons, space warfare, and strategic deception to stretch the United States and its allies to the breaking point. It is a military techno-thriller about whether even the most advanced forces can learn and adapt fast enough when the next war arrives.

Two years after the events of White Sun War and China’s failed invasion of Taiwan, the uneasy peace in the Pacific comes to an end.

A new leader in Beijing has learned from the mistakes of the last war. Rather than launching another direct assault on Taiwan, China embarks on a far more ambitious campaign designed to fracture allied unity, seize strategically vital territory, and push American power back across the Pacific. As coordinated attacks erupt from the Aleutians to Guam and Papua New Guinea, the United States and its allies find themselves confronting a conflict fought across every domain—on land, at sea, in the air, in space, and across the information networks that shape modern societies.

From remote Pacific islands and contested maritime corridors to military headquarters in Washington and Beijing, soldiers, sailors, aviators, and political leaders struggle to adapt to a rapidly changing battlefield shaped by artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cognitive warfare, and industrial mobilization. Success depends not only on technology, but on leadership, adaptability, and the ability of democratic societies to sustain a long war against a determined adversary.

Written by retired Australian Army major general Mick Ryan, Pacific Storm combines operational realism with a vision of future conflict. Building on the world introduced in White Sun War, Ryan’s latest novel explores how the next great Pacific conflict might unfold.

For readers of Tom Clancy, P. W. Singer, August Cole, and M. P. Woodward, Pacific Storm offers a thought-provoking and deeply informed vision of war in the age of artificial intelligence.