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Anonymous ID: 1bff4b March 10, 2018, 9:57 a.m. No.613108   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>612957

I have no expertise on this. An opinion found on quora.com/How-does-Australias-military-relationship-with-the-U-S-impair-its-relations-with-China (not mine) :

 

Australia’s military relationship with the US is very tight. It is possibly the tightest military relationship the US has with any country. I’m not saying that as hyperbole. When the US makes a decision to act, or perform airstrikes, some countries run away, some say sure and then pull out. Some have a change of government and reverse out of the ideal. Some agree but don’t actually do much. Some have a crisis of their convictions and wonder if its all worth it. Some criticise the whole time. Australia is just easy for for the US to deal with. From the Prime Minister to the lowest grunt, Australia is just amazingly easy for the US to deal with.

Australia is unwavering. There are few strings and hangups with Australian commitments. Australia integrates very easily into US forces. You have lots of personnel on exchanges. You have lots of historic contact and context.

Australia prioritises integration with US forces very highly. 4CI (Command, Control, Communication, Computers and Intelligence), AEGIS ship systems, US submarine combat systems, its integrated into the US National missile defence system.

So yes, Australia is tight with the US.

 

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Anon again: is this because Australia with its unique geographic location provides a forward base for US military and intelligence with a window on SE Asia?

 

Another website says: Australia is one of five U.S. security treaty allies in the Asia-Pacific (Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines are the other four)

Anonymous ID: 1bff4b March 10, 2018, 10:10 a.m. No.613337   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>612957

Some more background on US military-intelligence strategic relationship with Australia. From foreignaffairs.com/articles/australia/2015-02-19/new-special-relationship

Feb/2015 probably out of date but some history of the relationship anyway

 

''Although Australia is one of five U.S. security treaty allies in the Asia-Pacific (Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines are the other four), it will increasingly matter more to Washington. Unlike the other allies, Australia is not involved in any territorial disputes with its neighbors. The country is at the fulcrum between the Pacific and Indian Oceans and has a long history of engagement in this region; an expanse of rich strategic and economic promise that Washington would like to influence. It is also a critically important supplier of energy, raw materials, and food to China, which adds a measure of leverage to U.S. efforts to shape China’s economic and political choices.

For all of these reasons, deeper engagement with Australia—including through increased presence of U.S. military, surveillance, and intelligence assets on Australian soil; additional rotations of U.S. Marines through Darwin; greater access to airstrips in northern Australia; and, potentially, a base near Perth for U.S. nuclear submarines—is necessary to bolster the United States’ rebalance to Asia. Indeed, for Washington, the U.S.–Australian partnership has become a special relationship with few equivalents in the world. But few outside a small circle of policy elites seem to have noticed.''