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Accelerating-US-Australia-cooperation-on-precision-guided-weapons

25 Sep 2024

US strength.2 Furthermore, the first US National Both the United States and Australia have made Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS), released in Jan- deterring coercion in the Indo-Pacific the focus of uary 2024, calls for working with allies and partners their defence strategies and plan to do so by deny- to increase defence production and improve the 3 ing an aggressor the ability to achieve its. [...] For will help Australia and the United States meet the instance, during the July 2023 Australia-United current global demand for weapons and improve States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN), the their ability to deter aggression in the Indo-Pacific allies agreed that by 2025 the United States and Aus- region. [...] Thus industry with the assumption that buys will be made up in struggles to build and maintain stable and resilient the future.68 As a result of the unreliability of its pri- supply chains and is disincentivised from invest- mary customer, the Pentagon, the US missiles and ing in upgrading their manufacturing processes munitions industrial base struggles. [...] The US missiles and munitions case basis by the State Department and Congress industrial base needs significant expansion after and often take years to be finalised.71 3 decades of neglect if it is to meet the immediate demand of the wars in Europe and the Middle East, let alone if it is going to be able to support the Pen- tagon as it prepares for the ‘pacing challenge’ of China. [...] ised the need to rapidly acquire more missiles to Moreover, other factors such as the global demand deter aggression in the Indo-Pacific and recognised for a particular PGM and ways to improve the that cooperation is necessary to make this a real- capacity and resiliency of combined supply chains ity.
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