America’s approach to the world has changed fundamentally. The era of its failed wars in...
Policy
ISIS families: are we more afraid and less compassionate than we were in 2019?
How is it that Australians - and our political leaders across the spectrum - seem so afraid of 34...
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...
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...
Penguins, not principles, key to Australia’s Trump management – & Ozzie maritime strategy tied to a collapsing US Navy
Penguins, not principles, key to Australia's Trump | RSS.com Marcus & Michael pull together a...
Trump shows what coercing the neighbourhood looks like
Donald Trump ordered the US military and CIA to abduct Venezuela’s president Maduro and his wife...
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...
Australian industry gets more Aussie, while Australia writes defence cheques it can’t cash
Australian industry gets more Aussie, while Austra | RSS.com Marcus and Michael pursue littoral...
The legalities and politics of the Sumud Flotilla to Gaza
In the Mediterranean Sea, on Thursday 2 October 2025, the Israeli Navy intercepted a 45-boat...
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...
Beijing is running rings around us in Pacific
The Albanese government’s failure to conclude security treaties with Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu...
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...
The contribution to peace Albanese could make at the UN
Anthony Albanese will be in New York next week to participate in a high-level meeting to...
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...