AUKUS Treaty NEWS ONLY

[Scott Kenny]

Patience, please. AUKUS Pillar 2 is indeed making progress | The Strategist

AUKUS Pillar 2 has a PR problem—and no, not just among sceptical regional partners. Compared with evident progress on Australia’s future submarine capabilities under Pillar 1, analysts have often decried a lack of detail or ...

www.aspistrategist.org.au

Of course there's very little detail about Pillar 2.

I'd bet that just about everything under that is classified!

 

[GTX]

Some info on Pillar 2 here:

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9842/CBP-9842.pdf

 

[GTX]

AUKUS partners break new ground in defence trade relations » Supply Chain Channel

AU has applauded the United States Government for taking concrete measures to enhance export control licensing requirements for the AUKUS trilateral partners.

supplychainchannel-co.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[WatcherZero]

South Korea has had a meeting on joining AUKUS.

https://www.reuters.com/world/south-korea-confirms-talks-aukus-pact-with-us-uk-australia-2024-05-01/

New Zealand says they will take their time considering joining after they were briefed on it by Australia

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-not-close-decision-joining-aukus-pact-minister-says-2024-05-01/

 

[GTX]

AUKUS Forum News | Issue 6 | May 2024

AUKUS Issue 6 FORUM May 2024 NEWS Steering the Course of the Autonomy Revolution hear from a determined innovator in AI robotics and Aussie energy navigation technologies innovator powering a new frontier in space From Reserves to...

www.calameo.com

 

[GTX]

What has the AUKUS alliance accomplished in the last year?

Training uniformed personnel is just one piece of a flurry of industrial, legislative and acquisition activity that’s taken place.

www.defensenews.com

 

[bobbymike]

Australia’s First National Defence Strategy: Deterrence Rules

With its first-ever National Defence Strategy, Australia aims to respond to a rapidly shifting strategic environment. But can the strategy address some of Australian defence’s more endemic problems?

rusi.org

 

[GTX]

Episode 76: An Examination of AUKUS

An in-depth exploration of the Australia–UK–US defence capability agreement (AUKUS) and what it means for the UK’s foreign and security policy in the Indo-Pacific.

rusi.org

 

[GTX]

Here’s how the US Army’s multidomain task force is contributing to AUKUS

The 3rd Multidomain Task Force is collaborating with Australia and the U.K. to develop technology like artificial intelligence and machine learning.

www.defensenews.com

 

[GTX]

SA makes play to enter US nuclear submarine supply chain ahead of AUKUS

South Australia's naval shipbuilding sector is moving to become more heavily involved in US nuclear submarine construction, well before work begins on AUKUS vessels.

www.abc.net.au

 

[bobbymike]

Maybe this is obvious at this point but slowly starting to believe the US will never achieve a shipbuilding or defense industrial base, in general, that supports its aspirational modernization goals.

It will more closely integrate with its allies into a global industrial base and global force structure. The US won’t have 80 deployable surface combatants but the US, Japan, Australia & S. Korea will.

I know the allies already cooperate and integrate I’m talking about making up shortfalls in US force structure.

 

[Forest Green]

At least partially relevant:

Solomon Islands praises Australia as 'partner of choice'

Sydney (AFP) May 21, 2024 - Solomon Islands lauded Australia as its partner of choice on Tuesday, a reassuring sign for Canberra as it seeks to counter China's growing influence in the South Pacific.

www.spacewar.com

 

[MrPhantomMan]

Hopefully that still holds after their next election.