Earlier this month, I had the privilege of attending the Australian American Leadership Dialogue in Adelaide. This unique forum brought together leaders from politics, business, academia and the community to strengthen the bonds between our …
Risk of failure is growing for AUKUS Pillar Two, the mechanism intended to turbocharge technology cooperation and deliver advanced military capabilities to the armed forces of Australia, the UK and the US. Lacking momentum and …
An article in The Strategist by Mike Keating and Jon Stanford on 22 August calling for abandoning the nuclear-submarine element of AUKUS is unconvincing. Most fundamentally, the authors, while arguing that the agreement aligns Australia …
Defence Minister Richard Marles said in June that if war broke out between the US and China, Australia would inevitably be involved. This is an unacceptable situation for any sovereign nation to be in. It …
Pillar Two of the AUKUS technology-sharing agreement offers more immediate benefits than the parallel, decades-long nuclear-submarine effort—but not until we fix serious shortcomings in its execution. It has six capability workstreams—undersea robotics, quantum, AI and …




