There are three major, unresolved questions with AUKUS that illustrate why this plan is not right for Australia, given the changing nature of the US.

It intrinsically ties Australia physically and metaphorically to an event that looks — at this early blush — like a defining ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An adviser to the Biden administration on the AUKUS project to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines warned on Monday against its cancellation amid a Pentagon review, ...

AUKUS TALKS - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a bilateral exchange with Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles at the Pentagon in Washington on Feb. 7, 2025. (Photo by Madelyn Keech, ...

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 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 ...

Key Points and Summary - AUKUS was sold as a game-changer: U.S. and U.K. nuclear-powered subs for Australia, a tougher deterrent against China, and a “free and open Indo-Pacific.” -On paper, it’s ...

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 ...

Responding to reports the Pentagon is reviewing AUKUS, the trilateral agreement expected to eventually lead to the sale of Electric Boat-built submarines to Australia, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd ...

SYDNEY, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Australia will make a second billion-dollar payment to boost U.S. nuclear submarine shipyards soon, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said in Washington on Tuesday, ahead ...

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 ...

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 ...