by Peter Jennings | Jun 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Israel’s military strikes against Iran are broader than nuclear facilities, air defence and missile sites. Israel has also successfully targeted and killed potentially seven senior generals of the Iranian military and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps....
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jun 13, 2025 | Defence Budget, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Common defence Myth Takes, North Korean real estat | RSS.com Back from teaming with Dennis Rodman to help Kim Jong Un fix his naval troubles, the Grumpies get into myth busting on defence spending & on drones. They examine 6 common Myth Takes on defence spending...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jun 12, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
So, the US is reviewing the AUKUS sub deal to align it with Donald Trump’s America First approach and to ensure Australia and the UK are stepping up on collective defence. As America does this review, Australia should take a fresh look too, so we know what we...
by Rod Lyon | Jun 11, 2025 | China, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Heralds of a new nuclear age are everywhere. Commentators point to the decline of relationships among the five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council—the exclusive great-power club which previously constituted the main ballast of the nuclear world—and the...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jun 6, 2025 | China, Podcasts, Policy
A Grumpy Strategist meets Taiwan’s rep in Australi | RSS.com Taiwan’s representative in Australia, Douglas Hsu, talks with a Grumpy Strategist about the 2025 World Health Assembly, now as a time to reinforce multilateral & international organisations,...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jun 4, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
As Anthony Albanese’s election euphoria fades, the hard work of his second term has begun. And there’s probably not much that’s more difficult than navigating his meeting with US President Donald Trump at the G7 in Alberta Canada. Mr Trump demonstrated his lack...
by Peter Jennings | Jun 3, 2025 | Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability
Pete Hegseth, the tough-talking US Secretary of Defence, has “conveyed” to Richard Marles “that Australia should increase its defence spending to 3.5 per cent of its GDP as soon as possible”. A “readout” of this meeting was released by the US Department of...
by Peter Jennings | Jun 2, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific
Anthony Albanese’s first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump will happen in Alberta, Canada, at the mid-June G7 meeting. It would be astonishing if Albanese didn’t go on to visit Trump in Washington DC. In the past, Australian prime ministers and US...
by Robbin Laird | May 30, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability
If the strategic environment is driving an enhanced need to bulk up the capabilities of the ready force, where will the money come from to do so? And just as significantly, would recasting and reinforcing the fight tonight force with new means such as maritime...
by Michael Shoebridge | May 30, 2025 | Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Episode 42 – the Meaning of Life, with drones, the | RSS.com Marcus and Michael set out fast moving developments in military use of drones. they’re happening not just in Ukraine, but in Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Singapore and the UK (just not in...
