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Sleepwalk to War

Sleepwalk to War 1

Australia's Unthinking Alliance with America: Quarterly Essay 86

by Hugh White
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Publication Date: 27/06/2022
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Is the US-Australia alliance now based on a fantasy?

In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia's fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position - what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely?

White considers the wisdom of the choice in relation to AUKUS, Taiwan, the Quad, Biden and Trump. Can America's containment strategy hope to succeed? Can America bear the burden of our dependence on it? If not, where does this leave our future security and prosperity? Is there a better way to navigate the disruption caused by China's rise?

This is a dramatic and original essay by Australia's leading strategic thinker.

ISBN:
9781760643553
9781760643553
Category:
Politics & government
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-06-2022
Publisher:
Black Inc.
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
86th Edition
Pages:
144
Hugh White

Hugh White is the author of The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power and Quarterly Essay 39 Power Shift: Australia’s Future between Washington and Beijing.

He is a professor of strategic studies at ANU and has been an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments, a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, a senior adviser to Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and a senior official in the Department of Defence, where from 1995 to 2000 he was deputy secretary for strategy and intelligence and co-author of Australia’s Defence White Paper 2000.

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The writer is eminently qualified to write on this most serious topic, and presents a detailed, well argued case that the USA will ultimately withdraw from the western Pacific, ceding this region to China as their sphere of influence.
This scenario would likely result in Australia having to defend herself, by presenting a deterrent sufficient to ensure her own security. This has implications for the submarine deal, with the suggestion that 20 or so conventionally powered subs would be a more effective deterrent than 8 nuclear powered boats.

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