USSC Director of Foreign Policy and Defence Professor Peter Dean was featured in an article in The New Daily about a Congressional Research Service report recommending Australia forgo plans to acquire US nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) under AUKUS and instead allow the United States to operate its SSNs from Australian shores.
“The current AUKUS arrangement as it stands is about Australia developing a sovereign capability to own, operate, sustain, maintain and build its own SSN capability,” said Professor Dean.
“We are not borrowing [or] leasing … these boats.”
