Grumpy Strategists Popes and Prime Ministers editi | RSS.com YouTube version available here....
Our shrinking, self-bankrupting military – getting less for more
Australia is spending more and more taxpayers’ dollars equipping our Defence Force, but it is...
The Coalition’s defence funding by the numbers – breaking the permafrost
Last week the Liberal Party released its defence policy (slightly) ahead of Saturday’s federal...
Grumpy Strategists Episode 39: Elections, defence, cash, chainsaws and long bonnet syndrome.
Episode 39 of the Grumpies is available as a video podcast here on YouTube or here as an audio...
Peter Dutton fires a late salvo and declares war on defence drift
At last we have a measurable and important policy difference between Labor and the Coalition with...
The Coalition’s defence funding: new dollars can hedge strategic risks
The Coalition’s announcement that it will increase defence spending is a long overdue...
Dutton’s defence policy must buy increased military power, fast
It’s been an extraordinary gap in the debate around our federal election that no one has got to...
Grumpy Strategists’ first video podcast: Defence Dollars & Decisions edition
by Marcus Hellyer, Michael Shoebridge and Peter Jennings
Watch the video podcast here on YouTube The Grumpies Marcus and Michael are joined by SAA...
Defence 2025: Dollars and decisions
by Marcus Hellyer, Michael Shoebridge and Peter Jennings
This report comes at an unusual moment for Australian security. We’re in the middle of a federal...
The Grumpies’ Heard Island Edition: a risky America, determined penguins – & Australians see nothing happening.
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
The Grumpy Heard Island Edition: a risky America, | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists visit Trump...
In a long peace, a sleepy military is ideal. Time to wake it up.
In a long peace, the ideal military is a sleepy one. An outfit and bunch of people that...
Navy needs to take stronger action on China ‘research ship’
In March the Chinese “research ship” Tan Suo Yi Hao worked with New Zealand scientists to send a...
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: caught between China & the US, Australia fixates on a 2040 Fantasy Force
by Peter Jennings and Marcus Hellyer
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: | RSS.com Grumpy Strategist Marcus Hellyer talks...
Australia’s 2025-26 Defence Budget: $59 billion, but the Government’s still missing its moment
Cometh the moment, cometh the man goes the old saying. And the moment has certainly come. We have...
If Ukraine, Israel & Taiwan don’t matter, who’s got our back?
The seven-front war against Israel is heating up once again and the intensity of fighting in...