OPINION | Fremantle’s wartime past serves as AUKUS submarine prologue

US Navy submarines and the submarine tender USS Pelias at Fremantle Submarine Base in Western Australia, 1943

The strategic potential of Submarine Rotational Force-West, the AUKUS initiative that commits the United States and United Kingdom to forward-deploy a small flotilla of nuclear-powered attack submarines to HMAS Stirling, near Fremantle, isn’t adequately appreciated. Fortunately, history has set an instructive if insufficiently known precedent. During World War II, from a precarious start, Fremantle was […]

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