Abstract
Thirty-five years after its founding in San Francisco during September 1951, the ANZUS alliance (composed of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States) has become the latest victim in the steady dissolution of Washington's postwar collective defense framework. Formed as part of the settlement between Pacific nations that led to a peace treaty with Japan ending World War II, ANZUS signified both Australia's and New Zealand's acknowledgment of their dependence on Washington to underwrite their own security. From Washington's perspective, ANZUS was designed to serve as part of its global network of extended deterrence against Soviet military power stretching beyond Eastern Europe and the People's Republic of China into the outer maritime reaches of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Requisite military intelligence and logistical arrangements such as the RadfordCollins Agreement (formulated soon after the ANZUS Treaty itself), moreover, gave both the Australians and the New Zealanders at least a symbolic role in the planning and implementing of western maritime strategy in the Southwest Pacific. I
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