australia, including position in the asia office of the secretary of defense, policy, planning, booz allen hamilton, and bob is well-known for his expertise on only on planning and strategic guidance, but also in southeast asia and oceana. builds on growing momentum for strengthening not u.s.-japan-australia , but to align and make more interoperable bilateral relations in asia. u.s.-japan and u.s.-australian alliance were born together, but not really in intimacy. in some ways, quite the opposite. the australian side plate is quite well. the951, they help to design alliances we know today to maximize australian interests. largeas part of a bargain, but no point in intimacy. but that is changing after the cold war. on an operational level, it began in the clinton administration. when i was in the bush administration, we began in 2001 the trilateral security dialogue, and since then, things have accelerated from there in terms of trilateral cooperation. when andrew will present is based on his work in this area for about two decades, including contralateral response with japan, u.s., india,