The gravest threat to Australia’s sovereignty comes from the security doctrine and foreign policy of strategic dependence on the United States.
Precisely this concern is at the core of Dangerous Allies, Malcolm Fraser’s treatise on the history of Australia’s national security strategy, in which he examines our relationship with imperial powers.
The phrase ‘strategic dependence’ appears in his book more than a hundred times, including five times in the table of contents alone, with headings such as: Colonial foundations of strategic dependence, The cost of strategic dependence, and Part III, A time to end strategic dependence.
Dangerous Allies contains the sort of wisdom and insight that’s sorely lacking in today’s polity. Published in 2014, it contains a postscript about Ukraine that proves remarkably prescient in its prognosis for that US-sponsored regime-change operation.
This book explains the dangers arising from our intimate integration with the US military and the presence of US bases. A policy of strategic dependence deprives us of sovereignty over the most important questions of national security, and makes us a target in US-led wars. We’d be much better served by a foreign policy based on sovereignty, neutrality and respect for international law.
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