by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 30, 2026 | China, Featured, Policy
We’re told the Trump Administration is playing 16-dimensional chess in its reshaping of the world economy to make America great again. But the chess moves we’ve seen so far in the key auto manufacturing sector are damaging own goals that hurt America’s homegrown...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 25, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Strategy & Capability
Our Kentucky Colonel masters deflection, the War & | RSS.com Well, despite the great news from Energy Minister Chris Bowen that Australia faces no energy crisis other than silly unwashed Australians panicking, the Iran War has already created a global energy...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 24, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Strategy & Capability
In 2056, 30 years from now, when Australia has eight nuclear powered submarines (SSNs), we will have two deployable submarines consistently available. That’s assuming all goes well with AUKUS’ “optimal pathway” and we do in fact have eight SSNs in service. Expecting a...
by Ewen Levick | Mar 20, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Strategy & Capability
The war between the US, Israel and Iran is now entering its fourth week, and despite the loss of many senior figures, the Iranian regime survives. It is very difficult to bomb people into democracy. And so this war risks becoming a trial of strategic endurance....
by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 20, 2026 | Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
6 March 2026 is the day we can say that transparency around Australia’s Department of Defence died, or more accurately, was executed. It’s now sleeping with the fishes, mafioso style. On a Friday, the traditional day for burying controversial news, parliament’s...
by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 18, 2026 | Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Donald Trump’s greatest legacy is not going to be some kind of American economic renewal. It will be an America that is alone. His America First instincts have now reached a peak with his war against Iran. Aside from his Israeli partner, who has far more...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 17, 2026 | Featured, Podcasts, Policy
Victory in the War for Influence & Invoicing: Aust | RSS.com President Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address warning of the US Military Industrial Complex echoes in Canberra today – but with industry and products replaced in the Canberra version by...
by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 16, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
After making a global mess, US President Donald Trump wants everyone else to clean it up. Luckily for the Albanese government – but also as a reward for their steadfast pursuit of a perfect, early 2000s-style small military sometime in the late 2040s –...
by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 13, 2026 | Featured, Policy
Is it believable that the world’s most advanced airborne early warning and control aircraft, the Royal Australian Air Force’s E-7A Wedgetail, is going to be flying around in the Middle East but limited to only providing defensive information about incoming missiles...
