Japan and Australia have been asked by Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby to detail their commitments in the case of a U.S.

Donald Trump’s defence undersecretary Elbridge Colby is reviewing the AUKUS pact and could suggest big changes. But defence ...

The president should recognize those who are truest to his purported nationalist worldview.

In its 2025 white paper, Japan's Defense Ministry said the world faces the most perilous security environment since World War ...

The Trump administration is insisting on guarantees from Australia, as well as Japan, of involvement in any, potentially ...

Elbridge Colby’s recent decision to formally request how—and when—Australia and Japan would respond to any outbreak of hostilities in the Indo-Pacific between the United States and China was prudent.

The Pentagon's top policy official Elbridge Colby labeled the defense white paper “an important, clear-eyed strategic ...

Russia operations and North Korean threats pose the greatest challenge to global order since World War II, in its annual ...

The Pentagon has contacted Japan and Australia to determine their potential involvement if the U.S. and China were to engage ...

The US might yet save us from ourselves by adding conditions to the nuclear submarine agreement that no Australian government ...

The move reportedly caught Japanese officials off-guard, since the U.S. itself maintains a policy of “strategic ambiguity” on ...

Public pledges from the Asia-Pacific allies unlikely, observers say, with efforts to pressure them seen as signs of ...