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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia’s $368 billion AUKUS nuclear submarine program, aiming to deliver eight nuclear-powered submarines, is facing espionage concerns and delays. The pact involves buying used U.S. Virginia-class ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...