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 …
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It is becoming quite fashionable in Australia to assert that we must now leave our alliance with the United States. This assertion is based on the view that US power is in decline and that …
Elbridge Colby’s senate confirmation hearing in early March holds more important implications for US partners than most observers in Canberra, Wellington or Suva realise. As President Donald Trump’s nominee for under secretary of defence for …
In what might have been the longest presidential address to Congress in American history—an hour and forty minutes without intermission—President Donald Trump delivered a performance on Tuesday night that was simultaneously grandiose, confrontational, optimistic and …
Which US allies have paid their bills, as President Donald Trump would see things? Which, having given the United States little support in return for its security guarantee, now risk losing it? The short answer, …