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Collected Essays

Leveraging Scholarship to Enhance Policy

Walking and Chewing Bubble Gum: How the Joint Force can Partner for Success in a Multipolar World

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[October 2022] Abstract China’s One Belt One Road, “digital iron curtain,” and grey zone activities have contributed to what the...

Some Awkward Truths about AUKUS

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[October 2022] The AUKUS deal was signed in September 2021 and subsequently evaluated by pundits and experts worldwide almost entirely...

Toward an AUKUS-era research and engineering strategy

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[October 2022] The year-old trilateral security partnership among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—AUKUS for short—has the potential...

Delivering AUKUS Success in challenging times

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[October 2022] At the launch of the new AUKUS partnership on 15 September 2021, it was clear that the leaders...

AUKUS and the maritime foundations of national security in Europe and the Indo-Pacific

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[October 2022] The signing of AUKUS a little more than a year ago divided international opinion. Much of the criticism...

AUKUS Special Operations Forces in Strategic Competition, Integrated Deterrence, and Campaigning: Resistance to Malign Activities

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[October 2022] On September 15, 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States formed AUKUS, which is described as...

AUKUS Is Not the New Asian NATO, nor Even a Start at One

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[October 2022] The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) Meet the Press conducted...

THE STRATEGIC INTERPLAY BETWEEN AUKUS, THE NPT, AND THE RULES-BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER

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[September 2022] This commentary focuses on the first dimension of AUKUS: the plan for Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines in...

AUKUS and Cyber Capabilities: Alignment of Concepts, Definitions, Capabilities, Norms and Doctrine

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[September 2022] As strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific intensifies, it challenges previously held assumptions about how to establish and maintain...

AUKUS and Military Education Innovation

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[September 2022] Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States recently entered into a defense partnership that could effectively challenge...

AUKUS and the Rules Based International Order

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[September 2022] On September 15, 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced a wide-ranging technology-sharing partnership agreement...

AUKUS Joint Continuing Professional Development in Military Ethics

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[September 2022] We (the authors, Deane-Peter Baker and David Whetham) are applied military ethicists. We have focused our careers on...

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