by Peter Jennings | Mar 24, 2024 | China, Indo Pacific
When Beijing is openly preparing to attack Taiwan, endlessly bullying countries into political submission and undermining US alliances in Asia, it takes a special type of Australian diplomacy to pretend bilateral relations are improving and the biggest issues on the...
by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 22, 2024 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability
There’s been a lot of focus on nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) in Australia in the last week or so. First there was the firestorm in response to the United States Navy reducing its planned procurement of Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs)...
by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 21, 2024 | China, Indo Pacific
The most striking thing about the Chinese foreign minister’s visit to Australia is how empty the official events around it have been. Australian government statements about it have been content free, apart from expressing the government’s delight about having the...
by Ulas Yildirim | Mar 16, 2024 | Policy
The precarious state of Australia’s imports of refined fuels like diesel and jet fuel requires Defence to play a bigger role in Australia’s fuel market to satisfy its ongoing fuel needs. Because in the long run relying solely on the market will place more than...
by Adam Gilmour and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 15, 2024 | Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Grumpy Strategists Makers Series Episode 2 – Gilmo | RSS.com In 12 years, Adam Gilmour has grown Gilmour Space to be able to design and build its own space launch rockets, satellite buses to carry users’ payloads & now is running his own space launch...
by Mike Kelly and Anthony Bergin | Mar 13, 2024 | Policy
As the war in Gaza moves towards a conclusion there’s been renewed discussion regarding the recognition of a state of Palestine without waiting for Israeli approval. Australia has refrained from recognition, viewing the bifurcation of Palestinian territories between...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 8, 2024 | Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy – jarringly out of step with our world | RSS.com Grumpy Strategists Marcus Hellyer & Michael Shoebridge have waded through the Australian Government’s new Defence Industrial Development...
by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 8, 2024 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has expressed his concerns with the quality of advice coming from the Department of Defence’s leadership. He has stated there are issues of ‘culture within the senior leadership’ and apparently, less than...
by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 7, 2024 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Defence industry minister Pat Conroy released the government’s Defence Industrial Development Strategy the day after ASIO boss Mike Burgess told the country that a former politician had sold out our country to a foreign spy agency. That was good timing for...
by Peter Jennings | Mar 2, 2024 | Policy
ASIO head Mike Burgess’s annual threat assessment speech has been a welcome addition to Canberra’s national security theatre, now in its fifth year. Rather like the great and powerful Wizard of Oz, Burgess emerges in front of a curtain – black, not green like in the...
