New Aukus drone tech to protect critical undersea cables as Marles warns: ‘seabed is a battlefield’
response times, testing our attribution thresholds and testing our political will to respond?”
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The US secretary of defence, [Pete Hegseth](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pete-hegseth), announced