Australia’s Chief of Defence Force General Angus Campbell recently described the challenge of...
Rolling back dangerous Chinese military behaviour – it starts with a phone call
It shouldn’t be a surprise to hear that a Chinese jet has endangered an Australian Navy helicopter...
The numerology of Australia’s new National Defence Strategy & investment plan
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
The numerology of Australia's new National Defence | RSS.com In Episode 17, Marcus Hellyer and...
The National Defence Strategy’s 2 key shortfalls: strategic purpose & the nature of warfare
Years ago, a task often assigned graduates newly arrived in Defence was to draft responses to...
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...
A Pacific Ocean Expedition
by Anthony Bergin and Maurice Brownjohn
Pacific leaders have long recognised the benefits to be derived from investing more in ocean...
Why we should pay attention to China’s Antarctic moves
After Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s recent meeting with Penny Wong in land-locked Canberra it...
The West must act against Tehran aggression
by Mike Kelly and Anthony Bergin
The massive and direct aggression against Israel by Iran should wake up the democratic world to...
There is no deterrence without a manufacturing base
by Graeme Dunk
Deterrence has been this Government’s mantra from the early stages of its time in office....
Devalued words and dollars damage Australia’s security
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
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...
Change, not continuity, is what’s needed to meet the ever-growing threat from China
Promotion in the Australian Defence Force is designed to be this way. The Chief of Defence Force...
6 years of indecision and drift
Angus Campbell ends his 6 year tenure as the chief of Australia’s military having delivered drift...
Clean hands and credibility lacking in Special Adviser appointment
by Michael Shoebridge and Anthony Bergin
The Albanese government has appointed former Chief of the Defence Force Chief Marshal Mark Binskin...
Grumpy Strategist Makers Series Episode 3 – NIOA Group
by Robert Nioa and Michael Shoebridge
Grumpy Strategist Makers Series episode 3 - NIOA G | RSS.com From a small sporting shooting goods...














