AUKUS review chief speaks
The Trump administration’s review of AUKUS was “the best thing” that could have happened to the submarine pact, the review’s architect and senior Pentagon official Elbridge Colby told a conference this week.
The review, which caused some anxiety in Australian pro-AUKUS circles, prompted “very productive conversations” between US and Australian officials about “reconciling and understanding” how the submarines should be deployed, the website Breaking Defense reported.
“Everybody has political constraints” on sub deployment, Elbridge said, adding: “At some point in the 2030s, a president’s gonna make a decision to go ahead with this.