-The U.S. Navy is struggling to build and maintain its own submarine fleet and cannot spare any Virginia-class boats, while the UK's industry has no surplus capacity to make up the shortfall. -This ...

A Trump-aligned Pentagon review questions whether AUKUS fits an “America First” agenda, raising fears it could unravel a key US-UK-Australia submarine and defense tech partnership against China. The ...

The Trump administration describes the Indo-Pacific as the “priority theater,” and is pursuing a strategy to “deter by denial” growing Chinese assertiveness. AUKUS, the defense agreement between ...

AUKUS banner with USA, UK, and Australia flag icons. American, British, and Australian security alliance pact design. Vector illustration. The Pentagon is reviewing the AUKUS security pact between the ...

The Department of Defense should continue to embrace AUKUS as a bulwark of Indo-Pacific security. On June 11, 2025, the news broke that US Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby would lead a ...

Almost four years on from the launch of the trilateral AUKUS pact, the partners’ Pillar II advanced capabilities effort remains a solution in search of a problem. Led by lofty shared ambitions in a ...

In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the practical sort: “It is his business to convince the mob (a) that it is confronted ...

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday that the United States would be able to use planned defense facilities in Western Australia to help deliver submarines under the AUKUS nuclear ...

Not since the U.S. and the United Kingdom first agreed to share nuclear materials, technology and information has there been a more significant defense partnership than the one known as AUKUS, an ...

The Trump administration’s ambivalent approach to U.S. alliances has ruffled a lot of feathers, including in the Asia-Pacific. In a sign of disquiet, a number of Asia-Pacific leaders backed out of ...

AUKUS banner with USA, UK, Australia flag icons. American, British, Australian security alliance pact design. Vector illustration. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Australian Minister of ...

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