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The AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead

-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 ...
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COMMON KNOWLEDGE

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, ...
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The Emerging Role of UUVs: AUKUS as a Platform for Development

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 ...
The National Interest

The “America First” Policy Is Threatening AUKUS

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 ...
War on the Rocks

AUKUS Pillar II Is Failing in Its Mission

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 ...
USNI

Defense Department Conducting Review of AUKUS Security Pact

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 National Interest

Support AUKUS: It’s China’s Worst Nightmare

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 ...
USNI

Defense Leaders Gather for Annual AUKUS Meeting Following Agreement Review

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 ...
CNN

US will have access to new AUKUS nuclear submarine shipyard, Australia says

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 ...
The Heritage Foundation

AUKUS Should Build a Center for Experimentation in Western Australia

In September 2021, the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced a plan to cooperate on their respective nuclear attack submarine programs and technological advancement ...
Washington Examiner

Trump is burning every US alliance

If the United States will not keep its word even to its closest allies, what is its friendship worth? In reviewing the AUKUS deal — a $240 billion multidecade agreement with the United Kingdom and ...