The Trump administration has ordered a review of AUKUS to be led by Undersecretary of Defense Policy Elbridge Colby. The review has some attendant risks, but also a potential upside for the three-way partnership.

In 2021, the Aukus security pact was hailed as a bold reconfiguration of 21st Century deterrence strategy – a trilateral alignment between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States aimed

A former defence minister doesn't believe the US will walk away from the AUKUS security pact altogether, despite the Pentagon starting a review of the agre

Australia will have “a very high price to pay if AUKUS fails”, opposition defence spokesman Angus Taylor says.

US President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a formal review of former President Joe Biden’s AUKUS defense pact with Australia and Britain to allow Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines,

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The AUKUS review and the uncertainty it casts reinforces the chief concerns of its most vehement critics such as Paul Keating, Bob Carr and Malcolm Turnbull in that Australia has vested an enormous chunk of its defence interests in a power led by an untrustworthy, capricious and narcissistic buffoon.