by Marcus Hellyer, Michael Shoebridge and Peter Jennings | Apr 17, 2025 | AUKUS, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Watch the video podcast here on YouTube The Grumpies Marcus and Michael are joined by SAA co-founder Peter Jennings to talk through SAA’s new report: Defence 2025: Dollars and decisions available here. They cover the big changes Australia must make to deal with...
by Marcus Hellyer, Michael Shoebridge and Peter Jennings | Apr 17, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Policy, Publications, Uncategorized
This report comes at an unusual moment for Australian security. We’re in the middle of a federal election campaign and it’s at a time of great global upheaval, dominated for now by big new uncertainties flowing rapidly out of the Trump administration in Washington DC....
by Anthony Bergin | Apr 15, 2025 | Policy
Gaza has been witnessing the largest ever protests against Hamas. Open opposition highlights how residents want the terror organisation to leave. At least some Palestinians are so fed up with Hamas that they’re brave enough to risk their lives to be heard. Palestinian...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Apr 10, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
The Grumpy Heard Island Edition: a risky America, | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists visit Trump tariffs’ Ground Zero on Heard Island. While President Trump’s shifting global moves are creating uncertainty about working with America, the good news is that...
by Michael Shoebridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Policy, Strategy & Capability
In a long peace, the ideal military is a sleepy one. An outfit and bunch of people that resemble stewards looking after a creature put into cryogenic hibernation, with vital systems barely ticking over. The stewards in charge do routine health and system...
by Peter Jennings | Apr 2, 2025 | AUKUS, China
In March the Chinese “research ship” Tan Suo Yi Hao worked with New Zealand scientists to send a miniature submarine 6km down to the bottom of the Pusegur Trench, collecting samples from the seabed. “I really hope they come back and look at the trenches again. There’s...
by Peter Jennings and Marcus Hellyer | Apr 1, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: | RSS.com Grumpy Strategist Marcus Hellyer talks with co-founder Peter Jennings in SAA’s secure bunker deep in the Brindabella ranges. They discuss the puzzle of the Canberra consensus that Australia is in a much...
by Anthony Bergin | Mar 27, 2025 | China, Indo Pacific, Policy, Uncategorized
In a recent article published by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Edward Chan points out that Australian governments have been hesitant to engage too closely with China on maritime security issues. He argues that must change: Australia should be...
by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 26, 2025 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Cometh the moment, cometh the man goes the old saying. And the moment has certainly come. We have seen an unbroken string of destabilising and threatening international events over the past decade. Their impact on Australia’s security has been consistently...
by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 26, 2025 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
We are in an age of upheaval. President Donald Trump’s actions are accelerating many of the strategic drivers that were already at work. These changes are not beneficial to Australia. While the mantra of ADF leaders has been “we’ll never fight alone”, even...
