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The Hulk is back, and he won’t like our defence weakness
During the 2016 presidential election I wrote that the United States desperately needed Captain...
Reality Bites: Senate Estimates issues for Defence November 2024
Questions for the 2024-25 Defence portfolio supplementary budget estimates hearings Senate...
Episode 28: Sub schedules on fire, Deterrence by Documentation & a guided weapons go slow
Episode 28: Sub schedules on fire, deterrence by d | RSS.com With a fire in the UK's sub...
Defence’s recycled autonomy announcements – fool me once, shame on you…
Last week Richard Marles and Pat Conroy trumpeted Exercise Autonomous Warrior 2024 as “AUKUS...
Episode 26: Acceleration – that word doesn’t mean what you think it means
Episode 26: Acceleration - that word doesn't mean | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists discuss what...
‘JAUKUS’ by frigate: an $11 billion accelerator
Australia’s impending $11 billion general purpose frigate decision is about more than which...
Episode 25 -the Army gets wet. An empty AUKUS sub plan damages trust
Episode 25 -the Army gets wet, while an empty AUKU | RSS.com On the Grumpy Strategists' 1st...
AUKUS subs aren’t about jobs and growth
Among all the claims made about Australia’s plans to acquire nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs)...
Australia’s missing nuclear debate – it’s not about subs
Recently, the nuclear debate, such as it is in Australia, has been captured by two significant...
Megaprojects & mega holes: sublime lessons for Australia’s submarine enterprise
Earlier this year I started looking at what Bent Flyvbjerg’s analysis of megaprojects can teach us...
Disappearing tanks, $million missiles, SNAUKUS & the bear behind the US election – Episode 23
Disappearing tanks, million dollar missiles, SNAUK | RSS.com SAA's Marcus Hellyer and Michael...
A US dose of reality shows Australia must meet more of our own needs
We’ve had recent announcements from AUSMIN and AUKUS, the two acronyms describing our peak...
Two ministers, two defence policies — same old delusions
The Albanese government has given us two defence ministers: Richard “Call me Deputy Prime...
SSN-AUKUS: a ‘mature’ design…just with many defining things not settled.
What is SSN-AUKUS? This is not a metaphysical question along the lines of what is the meaning of...