One element of President Biden’s FY2024 defense budget that has not attracted much attention here...
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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...
Is Albanese serious about tackling Defence reform?
Australia’s defence industry leaders typically operate below the radar when it comes to critiquing...
Do we have a viable military strategy?
With the Albanese government’s adoption of the Defence Strategic Review, Australia’s defence...
12 questions on the 2023-24 Defence budget
Australia needs to mobilise in order to address the strategic challenges it is facing. The Defence...
Biden skipping Sydney Quad meeting’s bad, but our underwhelming Strategic Review is worse
US President Joe Biden’s decision not to attend a summit of the Quad countries in Sydney is...
Defence Budget 2023-24: Living in the past
The bottom line up front: The Albanese government’s May Defence budget is disconnected from its...
Unpacking the DSR dollars
Like all big policy statements, the public version of the Defence Strategic Review (DSR), released...
What we’ve learned from the Defence Strategic Review
While there’s only a single paragraph devoted to it down on page 23, it’s clear that the Defence...
Saltwater Strategists Podcast: AUKUS, DSR and Australia’s Maritime Capability
In this Australian Naval Institute Saltwater Strategists podcast, Dr Marcus Hellyer, Head of...
Unpacking the cost of our nuclear-powered submarine program
The government has said that the cost of buying and operating our eight nuclear-powered submarines...
Strategic Review must be more than catalogue shopping and internal cuts
There’s a hole in the middle of the discussion about defence, AUKUS and nuclear submarines. And...