AUKUS Submarines Would Be Obsolete Before Australia Gets Them

AUKUS review an opportunity for Australia | The Australian Naval Institute

By Emanuel Cohen* The Pentagon’s review of the AUKUS defence partnership has surely generated anxiety in Canberra. But the Trump administration’s goal of verifying the program’s alignment with the ‘America First’ agenda presents Australia’s leadership with an opportunity. (From The Strategist, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.) This is a unique chance to provide the Australian […]

AUKUS submarines would be obsolete before Australia gets them

Before the drawings have been completed, new detection technology has already made RN SSN AUKUS obsolete. After extraordinary U-boat success in sinking allied shipping in the early years of World War II, the commander of the German submarine fleet, Admiral Karl Doenitz, reported to Hitler in May 1943: “We are facing the greatest crisis in […]

AUKUS Will Show Its Value in DoD Review, Senate Foreign Relations Chair Says

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said June 17 that he expects the Australia-U.K.-U.S. (AUKUS) partnership will demonstrate its worth in the Defense Department's recently announced review of the security initiative. "AUKUS is a...