The Foreign Policy and Defence Program is committed to providing policy-oriented research and analysis on American strategic policy and the United States-Australia alliance, with a focus on developments in the Indo-Pacific.
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In an interview with ABC Radio's The Signal, Ashley Townshend, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, weighed in on the Australian government's recently announced $270 billion defence strategy.
Three experts — Allan Behm, head of the international and security affairs program at the Australia Institute; Ashley Townshend, director of the foreign policy and defence program at USSC; and Brendan Thomas-Noone, research...
The 30th round of the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations will soon take place amid immense global disruption and unprecedented domestic pressures accelerated by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (also known as coronavirus or COVID-19)...
The Daily Mail quotes USSC non-resident senior fellow John Lee is this article.
The Daily Telegraph report that the United States is set to spend a ‘thumpingly’ large amount of money in Darwin, after high-level bilateral talks in Washington put the city at the centre of...
The Australian reports that Australia and the US have established a top-secret defence co-operation framework to counter Chinese military aggression, and put Darwin at the centre of future military plans with a new...
When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week called for the formation of an unspecified “alliance of democracies” to counter China, Australia was among the countries he probably had in mind. The...
Amid the pandemic and intensifying strategic competition, the Australia-US alliance is working to adapt to myriad Indo-Pacific challenges and provide critical health security and defence support to our partners.
That’s the key message...
