Anthony Albanese’s wildly inaccurate take on John Curtin’s war would fail as an undergraduate...
How to lose an alliance: PM’s shrinking ambition
"It’s past the point that the failure of Donald Trump and the Prime Minister to meet face-to-face...
Australia falls behind as Trump Doctrine reshapes the strategic landscape
The coming week may be the most important yet in Donald Trump’s presidency. It will be the...
Five steps to fix AUKUS – and a viable defence plan B
The Albanese government’s handling of AUKUS has been lazy, half-hearted and inattentive. The good...
Why Netanyahu is going for broke: six things to watch out for
Israel’s military strikes against Iran are broader than nuclear facilities, air defence and...
Albanese about to get brutal lesson in great power politics
Pete Hegseth, the tough-talking US Secretary of Defence, has “conveyed” to Richard Marles “that...
The two factors playing on Albanese’s mind over Trump meeting
Anthony Albanese’s first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump will happen in...
Peter Dutton fires a late salvo and declares war on defence drift
At last we have a measurable and important policy difference between Labor and the Coalition with...
Grumpy Strategists’ first video podcast: Defence Dollars & Decisions edition
by Marcus Hellyer, Michael Shoebridge and Peter Jennings
Watch the video podcast here on YouTube The Grumpies Marcus and Michael are joined by SAA...
Defence 2025: Dollars and decisions
by Marcus Hellyer, Michael Shoebridge and Peter Jennings
This report comes at an unusual moment for Australian security. We’re in the middle of a federal...
Navy needs to take stronger action on China ‘research ship’
In March the Chinese “research ship” Tan Suo Yi Hao worked with New Zealand scientists to send a...
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: caught between China & the US, Australia fixates on a 2040 Fantasy Force
by Peter Jennings and Marcus Hellyer
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: | RSS.com Grumpy Strategist Marcus Hellyer talks...
If Ukraine, Israel & Taiwan don’t matter, who’s got our back?
The seven-front war against Israel is heating up once again and the intensity of fighting in...
Forget Collins, these should be our defence priorities
The plan to upgrade the Collins-class submarines with a life-of-type...
Role of crime in anti-Semitic attacks is a complicating factor, not a cleansing one
It was all a criminal hoax. That was the headline from this week’s police admission that the...