On Wednesday 23 April, the Albanese Government released its National Defence Strategy (NDS) and...
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Anthony Albanese turns a deaf ear to Australia’s rising terror threat
The appearance at the National Press Club of ASIO director-general Mike Burgess and Australian...
Finding the money for submarines is squeezing the Australian Defence Force
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles unleashed a blizzard of numbers yesterday when he launched...
Devalued words and dollars damage Australia’s security
Devalued words and dollars damage Australia's secu | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists assess the...
Crisis? What Crisis? Policy Perspectives and Strategic Coherence
This is an edited version of an address to the Sir Richard Williams Foundation Conference on the...
The Apache attack helicopter: another $5 billion in stranded assets?
It’s no secret that technological change can lead to companies having stranded assets, that is,...
Subs, Subs, Subs – 5 big events in the undersea world of AUKUS submarines
Subs, Subs, subs - 5 big events in the undersea wo | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists cover US...
US SSN(X) decision reveals a more optimal SSN pathway for Australia
There’s been a lot of focus on nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) in Australia in the last...
Defence falling further behind the excellence curve
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has expressed his concerns with the...
New Defence Industry Strategy: a dangerous framework that’s wilfully blind
Defence industry minister Pat Conroy released the government’s Defence Industrial...
A new Navy plan – money, frigates & floating missile trucks but no lessons from the Black or Red Seas
A new plan for Australia's Navy - money, frigates & floating missile trucks, but no lessons from...
Doubling down: The Navy’s new surface fleet plan by the numbers
The Government has released the broad brushstrokes of a plan for the structure of the Royal...
New plan to save the Navy, old approach to implementation
It has taken two reviews and 19 months for Defence Minister Richard Marles to understand the Royal...
Reversing the slow-motion collapse of our Navy
The Government’s challenge is to get new, properly armed warships into the Royal Australian Navy...
Richard Marles: stop digging, start leading
Richard Marles and Pat Conroy, our Defence and Defence Industry ministers, are living the lonely...