Unaccountable rises: A Defence leadership Trifecta | RSS.com Marcus and Michael each pick their...
America in Asia: a very different Hegesth to 2025 & regional ordering amongst disorder
by Graeme Dobell and Marcus Hellyer
America in Asia: a very different Hegesth to 2025 | RSS.com In Grumpy Strategists episode 74,...
Retreat from Singapore: Richard Marles succeeds in getting all used subs from America. The new ones are rubbish.
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
Retreat from Singapore: Richard Marles succeeds in | RSS.com In history, a retreat from Singapore...
Defence Senate Estimates 2026: 13 questions for reluctant officials
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
Strategic Analysis Australia is publishing a baker’s dozen sets of questions on the Defence...
Australia’s Collins subs life extension scandal: 10 years of failure covered up until the Auditors came – & the UK’s 1st Sea Lord takes truth serum
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
Australia's Collins subs life extension scandal: 1 | RSS.com Marcus and Michael go through the...
Defence Budget 2026-27: By the Numbers
This post has an embedded version of Marcus Hellyer's Defence budget Powerpoint slides. The slides...
Oz Budgets: the Unhappy meet the Disappointed. Big Defence numbers get small. And the cage fight in Beijing.
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
Oz Budgets: the Unhappy meet the Disappointed. Big | RSS.com Michael and Marcus argue furiously...
Australia’s Defence budget 2026-27: The $14 billion disappearing act
The 2026-27 Defence Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) are a very strange document. In fact, we’ve...
Australia’s 2026 National Defence Strategy – by the numbers you will know it
The Albanese Government has released its second National Defence Strategy (NDS) along with a...
Zen and the Art of Defence investment: big numbers for everyone – Episode 70
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
Zen and the Art of Defence investment: big numbers | RSS.com A Zen temple helps Marcus seek...
Is United States submarine production speeding up? Not according to US Navy data
Unlike the Australian Department of Defence, the United States’ Department of Defense (or War,...
Australia’s brand new, but old, Defence plan: a strategy of denial – that the world has changed
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
The Grumpy Strategists cover Australia's new defen | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists respond to...
Australia’s National Defence Strategy: Canberra is yet to have its Carney moment
There’s something very familiar about the Albanese government’s new 2026 National Defence...
Trump’s FY27 budget: $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon, $33bn for the State Department. Peace through missiles?
Since my planned birdwatching trip to western New South Wales was cancelled due the current fuel...
America’s wartime defense budget: $1.5 trillion to deliver a military able to fight everyone – except China…..
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
America's wartime defense budget: $1.5 trillion to | RSS.com Back in the SAA Bunker deep in the...









