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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...
Australia’s Defence budget: a sugar hit followed by a $2.6 billion cut. Take that, Mr Trump, sir!
Australia's defence budget update: a sugar hit fol | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists pan for gold...
Defence’s 2025-26 budget update— billions spent earlier, but billions go out the back door
The Defence portfolio’s mid-year budget update, the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements...
The hunt for Defence reform downunder: Mr Conroy & the Yeti. And the mystery of sea control with a tiny fleet
The hunt for Defence reform downunder: Mr Conroy & | RSS.com Marcus & his fellow SES emergency...
Albanese meets Trump: champagne all round – but a harder meeting would’ve been better for Australian security & the alliance
Albanese meets Trump: champagne all round - but a | RSS.com The Grump Strategists move back into...
Australian government prefers talking about defence funding over actually spending more.
The Trump administration has been calling on its partners and allies to lift defence spending to...
Sovereignty costs. If you won’t pay for it, you don’t have it
Sovereignty was once, fleetingly, the poster child of Australian defence policy and...
The Trump-Albanese meeting: Good news – he’s just not that into us
In the beating heart of this nation’s capital, Canberra, many of us have been thinking and...
Team Albanese works hard to make Australia’s Defence budget LOOK ‘bigglier’
Mr Albanese has two choices on Australian defence spending as he prepares to meet US President...
The Age of Impunity: unilateral use of force damages us all
Anyone thinking the Israeli government’s strike on senior Hamas personnel in Qatar or the American...
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...
Australia and ‘stable nuclear deterrence’ – catching up with a changed world
Heralds of a new nuclear age are everywhere. Commentators point to the decline of relationships...