Alliance with US 'no given' AUSTRALIA'S alliance with the US has reached a "new zenith" under John Howard but its future is threatened by unrealistic expectations, resentment in Asia, and a lack of bipartisan political support, a new US study says. As the US's highest ranking military official, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers, visits Australia today for talks with the Prime Minister, Defence Minister Robert Hill and defence force chief Peter Cosgrove, the US War College Strategic Studies Institute says resentment within Asia at Australia's involvement in Iraq and unrealistic US expectations about Australia's...