By Peter J. Dean and Alice Nason*
Almost four years on from the launch of the trilateral AUKUS pact, the partners’ Pillar II advanced capabilities effort remains a solution in search of a problem.
Led by lofty shared ambitions in a host of technological areas, rather than by clearly specified and carefully selected strategic needs, the AUKUS countries have put the cart before the horse, with little to show for it. But, in words usually attributed to Winston Churchill: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” (From United States Study Centre at the University of Sydney.)
