-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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After months of uncertainty and speculation, it appears that AUKUS has cleared its Pentagon review. That was the right call, and entirely consistent with the administration’s guiding mantra of peace ...