Setting the AUKUS record straight, with Dr Ross Babbage

Defence Connect Podcast Network

In this episode of the Defence Connect Podcast, host Steve Kuper is joined by Dr Ross Babbage, CEO of Strategic Forum and senior non-resident fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The pair begin their conversation discussing the origins of Dr Babbage’s report for the Lowy Institute, Deterrence and alliance power: Why the AUKUS submarines matter and how they can be delivered. The pair also discuss:

• Some of the concerns in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom around delivering the future SSN-AUKUS fleet.
• The risk/reward opportunity available to Australia as part of the generational nation-building program AUKUS represents.
• Setting the record straight on some of the misconceptions and focal points that dominate the national conversation about AUKUS.

Enjoy the podcast, The Defence Connect team