{"id":72873,"date":"2025-07-14T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/14\/divided-us-military-opinion-on-aukus-pact-as-review-continues"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:30:06","slug":"pentagon-wants-to-make-aukus-work-but-some-stakeholders-have-serious-concerns-senior-us-defence-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72873","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon wants to make Aukus work but some stakeholders have \u2018serious concerns\u2019, senior US defence official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence official says major increase in Australian defence spending is \u2018quite warranted\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some US military stakeholders have \u201cvery serious concerns\u201d about the Aukus arrangement but the Pentagon wants \u201cto make this thing work\u201d, a senior American defence official says. While they say a review of the nuclear submarine pact is being undertaken in good faith, it will not be completed within 30 days, as initially anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Washington is sticking to its request for Australia to give \u201ca clear sense\u201d of how it would respond militarily, including with the Aukus submarines, to future conflicts. While Anthony Albanese declares the Australian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jul\/13\/australia-wont-commit-in-advance-to-joining-hypothetical-us-china-conflict-pat-conroy-says\">wants to see \u201cpeace in and security in our region<\/a>\u201d, the senior official says the US wants Australia to step up more.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/14\/divided-us-military-opinion-on-aukus-pact-as-review-continues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence official says major increase in Australian defence spending is \u2018quite warranted\u2019Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSome US military stakeholders have \u201cvery serious concerns\u201d about the Aukus arrangement but the Pentagon w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[961,2346,43,645,324,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-aukus","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72874,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72873\/revisions\/72874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}