by Anthony Bergin | Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Founded in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir is a transnational Islamist activist organisation with a long-term goal of establishing a caliphate ruled under Islamic law. Its headquarters are in Lebanon, but the group operates in at least 32 countries, including Australia. Jewish...
by Peter Jennings | Jul 1, 2024 | Policy
Julian Assange emerged from his charter jet in Canberra on Wednesday night in a dark suit, white shirt and thin tie, raising his right arm in a clenched-fist salute. Perhaps Assange wanted to echo the image of Nelson Mandela walking out of the Victor Verster prison on...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jun 29, 2024 | Defence Budget, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Structural troubles ahead: a starving Air Force & | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists outline the structural consequences for the Air Force from the new permanent spend on ships & subs in the Defence budget. They cover another structural issue damaging...
by Marcus Hellyer | Jun 29, 2024 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
The Australian government has given up on the idea of designing the Australian Defence Force to be a ‘balanced’ force. Rather, the ADF is to become a ‘focused’ force, ‘designed to address Australia’s most significant strategic risks’ through the ‘impactful projection...
by Lesley Seebeck | Jun 27, 2024 | China, Policy
Some head-of-state, and head-of-government, visits are not like others. Generally, Australians are fairly relaxed when it comes to such matters. But there are occasions where such a visit will stir differing communities to active protest or generate public...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jun 24, 2024 | China, Indo Pacific
As we watch the brazen violence of the Chinese coastguard around the Philippines’ 2nd Thomas Shoal, we are witnessing a real time policy failure by countries who believe in a Free and Open Indo Pacific and a failure in collective security efforts to deter China...
by Anthony Bergin | Jun 21, 2024 | Reading, South Pacific
Largely because of our lack of a maritime culture, insular attitudes and failure to see Australia as a maritime power, we’ve so far failed in our defence and foreign policies to fully comprehend the security significance of the oceans. For Australia, almost everything...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jun 19, 2024 | China, Policy
Premier Li’s triumphal visit to Australia was meant to mark another waypoint on the journey to a stabilised Australia-China relationship. Instead, it shows a trajectory of intimidation and silencing of our government, along with a slow motion loss of self...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jun 18, 2024 | AUKUS, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Episode 20: Cringers, crawlers, walkers & runners | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists look at the emerging cult of AUKUS & its faith-based arrangements. They also set out who is going to win the US election using very dubious ‘psycho social analysis’...
by Peter Jennings | Jun 16, 2024 | China, Policy, South Pacific, Strategy & Capability
The price Australia pays for Anthony Albanese’s stabilised engagement with communist China is that all substance is drained from the relationship. That’s why the most concrete aim mentioned by the Prime Minister in his commentary piece in The Australian last Wednesday...
