Two decades of bipartisan effort to deepen defence ties with Japan made it possible to...
Strategy & Capability
Japan’s frigate win: Australia gets a strategic industrial partner; Japan gets a bucket of Australian risks
Japan’s Mogami class frigate bid has beaten the German alternative to win the Australian Navy’s...
Episode 47 Ground truthing Australia’s drone journey & the UK’s military & industrial base
Episode 47 Ground truthing Australia's drone journ | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists drill into the...
Australia and the UK put the AUKUS spin cycle on High
So, is what we’ve just heard about the strength of Australian-UK relations and commitment to AUKUS...
Australian crewing on US Navy’s own subs: Canberra’s AUKUS lever
There’s been plenty of criticism and consternation about reports Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon...
Grumpy Strategist Makers Series – with Beaten Zone’s Steve Baxter
Grumpy Strategist Makers Series - with Beaten Zone | RSS.com One Grumpy Strategist talks with...
Oh dear, what have you done to my fleet!? & Is Australia now bandwagoning AND free-riding??
Oh dear, what have you done to my fleet!? & Is Aus | RSS.com The Grumpies go over an Audit report...
PM doesn’t get it, but Curtin knew we needed the US
Anthony Albanese’s wildly inaccurate take on John Curtin’s war would fail as an undergraduate...
There’s nothing behind the prime minister’s Curtin
Anthony Albanese has used a speech about our wartime prime minister John Curtin to assert...
Trouble in the Navy’s material world is trouble for Australia’s security – & AUKUS
The Navy is systematically failing to manage and maintain the two largest ships in its fleet – the...
Is Australia willing to pay the costs of unthethering from America?
As we watch Donald Trump’s unpredictable America bomb Iran, and see Xi Jinping building his...
The Autonomous Revolution: How Australia can transform defence through maritime robotics
On May 28, 2025, Michael Shoebridge, Director of Strategic Analysis Australia, and I travelled to...
Iran strikes show the growing gap between Canberra and Washington
The Albanese government is finding it hard to come to terms with the way the world works now and...
The AUKUS emergency episode: What-the-Hell-Just Happpppppened? The Trump Review that’s what.
The AUKUS emergency episode: What-the-Hell-Just Ha | RSS.com With the UK Eurovision entry...
AUKUS reviews can’t hide the challenges facing submarine pipelines and politics
It’s been an eventful couple of weeks in AUKUS submarine land. The event that made the biggest...