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AUKUS Briefing Book
Where Academia and Statecraft Intersect

WHO IS SECURITY & DEFENCE PLUS?

The PLuS Alliance is a longstanding partnership between three universities – in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia – providing support and innovation to help solve global challenges. The Security & Defence PLuS initiative of the PLuS Alliance expands upon this partnership, allowing the Alliance to help advance and support statecraft, research, and policy in the spirit of the AUKUS partnership.

Leveraging Scholarship to Enhance Policy

AUKUS PARTNERSHIP

Negotiated between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the AUKUS partnership strengthens the ability of each country to support mutual security and defense interests by promoting deeper information and technology sharing in nuclear-powered submarines and other advanced capabilities. Security and Defence PLuS aims to enhance the statecraft of the countries within the AUKUS Partnership by utilizing each university’s unique approach to academic scholarship and research.

AUKUS Briefing Book
This is about investing in our greatest source of strength – our alliances. The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have long been faithful and capable partners who are even closer today.
Joe Biden (2021)US President,
To meet these challenges, to help deliver the security and stability our region needs, we must now take our partnership to a new level — a partnership that seeks to engage, not to exclude; to contribute, not take; and to enable and empower, not to control or coerce. And so, friends, AUKUS is born…
Scott Morrison (2021)Former Australian Prime Minister,
The United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States are creating a new trilateral defense partnership, known as AUKUS, with the aim of working hand in glove to preserve security and stability in the Indo-Pacific.
Boris Johnson (2021)Former UK Prime Minister,
The AUKUS partnership has seventeen trilateral working groups (nine relating to conventionally-armed nuclear-powered submarines, and eight relating to other advanced military capabilities).
Australia will become the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines, after the US, UK, France, China, India, and Russia.
Bringing together the military industrial complex of these three allies together is a step change in the relationship. We’ve always been interoperable, but this aims at much more. From artificial intelligence to advanced technology the US, UK and Australia will now be able to cost save by increasing platform sharing and innovation costs. Particularly for the smaller two, that’s game changing.
Tom Tugendhat (2021)chair of the British Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee,
Nuclear-powered submarines have superior characteristics of stealth, speed, maneuverability, survivability, and almost limitless endurance, when compared to conventional submarines. They can operate in contested areas with a lower risk of detection and deter actions against Australia’s interests.
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