US becoming dominant military force in Northern Territory, report says
"The US is building a functioning operating ecosystem in northern Australia while Australia risks becoming a secondary user of its own strategic geography." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/nt-usa-becoming-dominant-military-force-northern-territory-aspi/106460770
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Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "
Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
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