Australia has just been touched by an old alliance habit—the kick from Washington for being a...
Defence Budget
Defence Senate Estimates 2026: 13 questions for reluctant officials
Strategic Analysis Australia is publishing a baker’s dozen sets of questions on the Defence...
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.
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...
Behind the hoopla, the Government is leaving our military badly under-equipped in the drone era
We’re meant to be celebrating the Albanese Government’s amazing new plan to adapt the Australian...
Deterrence Without Resilience: Australia’s strategic risk gets real
Australia’s strategic environment has deteriorated faster than its defence posture has adapted....
Australia’s brand new, but old, Defence plan: a strategy of denial – that the world has changed
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...
The 2026 National Defence Strategy & investment plan: The world has changed – but Australia’s defence plans haven’t
Having read the 215 pages of the Australian Government's revised strategy and investment plan, two...
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…..
America's wartime defense budget: $1.5 trillion to | RSS.com Back in the SAA Bunker deep in the...
Mindboggling! celebrating $30 billion on sub sheds (not actual subs), while leaders outdo One Nation’s darker instincts
Mindboggling! celebrating $30 billion on sub sheds | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists boggle at the...
History and Service tradition relevant to a modern military? Apparently they’re just costly and counterproductive….
You know a family is in trouble when they start flogging off the furniture to fund their...