Two years on from the AUKUS announcement in September 2021 and only 6 months from Joe Biden, Rishi...
Strategy & Capability
Defence & Australian industry: from low trust & distant to direct partnership for delivery
"Australia’s defence industry is looking for two things: the first is an opportunity to...
Podcast: the Defence Strategic Review health check
Health check on Australia's Defence Strategic Review | RSS.com In this first Grumpy Strategist...
Talisman Sabre 2023: big lessons from a large exercise
The biggest version of Talisman Sabre ever conducted ended on 8 August. This high-end...
We need a national citizens’ militia
Successive Australian governments have had a phobia about being seen, even remotely, to support...
The East Coast nuclear submarine base decision is needed now, not in 2033
US Republicans in Congress are pushing the Biden Administration to put more funding into US...
Saltwater Strategists podcast “The China Challenge” and Australian security
A podcast covering strategy, capability, the region, China and the US recorded with Saltwater...
Australia and Germany help ourselves to jobs and vehicles while Ukraine fights a war
Ukraine’s military is running out of ammunition and other military supplies. The problem is...
Ukraine and China: déjà vu all over again for Mr Albanese at NATO
Anthony Albanese faces a testing trip to the NATO meeting in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius,...
The internet relies on things: vulnerable undersea cables
According to Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president, Russia could destroy subsea cables in...
Apply, pace & learn: language for defence innovation
When the military say ‘move fast and break things’ it usually means something different to that in...
Defence can’t fix itself and that matters for our security
How trusting of Deputy Prime Minister Marles to receive a scathing report about how broken the...
Is Albanese serious about tackling Defence reform?
Australia’s defence industry leaders typically operate below the radar when it comes to critiquing...
UK’s Barrow-in-Furness gives a glimpse of Australia’s AUKUS subs program
It’s a real positive that prime mInister Albanese took the time to visit Barrow-in-Furness, the UK...
To prevent a China war, we must bind ourselves to Taiwan
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just issued a warning to China over Taiwan. Delivering the...