ANALYSIS: The US is reviewing the Aukus submarine programme just after Australia paid a US$500m down payment. Can the alliance survive ‘America First’ or is this an opportunity for Australia to change direction?
WATCH: NBR senior journalist Lachlan Colquhoun speaks with Simon Shepherd.
If the United States were involved in a military conflict in the Pacific, some of the first targets for enemy missiles would be in Australia.
The antagonist, usually assumed to be China, would want to take out the Pine Gap communication facility in the Northern Territory, a US naval communication
