 Australia has long been a reliable ally of the United States, but has it become too reliable? 65 years after the signing of the Anzastreaty and amid great strategic change caused by the rise of China, it is time for a fresh look at the Australian-American alliance. In Fighting with America, historian James Curran argues that the current intensity in Cambridge relations with Washington has led Americans and Australians to forget past disagreements between the two nations. As the alliance becomes more focused on Asia, Australian and American interests will sometimes coincide, other times they may clash. For Australia, perhaps the most alarming dimension of Donald Trump's international agenda is his disdain for the US global alliance system. Trump's campaign pitch to make America great again was not a summons to a renewed era of US globalism, rather it was a reflection of the growing pressures to turn inward and focus on the home front. Australia's relationship with America has in the past weathered some profound shocks. But Trump's win will challenge the intense bipartisan consensus and sentimentality that has characterised the Australian-US alliance in recent years.