by Michael Shoebridge | Dec 1, 2023 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
A defence force has to have three things work well to be effective: it has to recruit and retain the skilled people it needs, it has to choose the equipment a military needs to succeed in conflict, and it has to operate and support that equipment. On all three...
by Michael Shoebridge and Marcus Hellyer | Sep 1, 2023 | Defence Budget, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability, Uncategorized
Health check on Australia’s Defence Strategic Review | RSS.com In this first Grumpy Strategist Productions podcast, Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge do a health check on the Defence Strategic Review, with some disturbing news for the patient and for...
by Peter Jennings | Jun 16, 2023 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Australia’s defence industry leaders typically operate below the radar when it comes to critiquing defence policy. That’s hardly surprising. The industry has one customer – the government – and business doesn’t complain about the paymaster. This has created a...
by Marcus Hellyer | May 22, 2023 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Australia needs to mobilise in order to address the strategic challenges it is facing. The Defence Strategic Review (DSR) proposes ways to do that. However, the 2023-24 Defence Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) does not yet incorporate the recommendations of the DSR....
by Marcus Hellyer | May 10, 2023 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
The bottom line up front: The Albanese government’s May Defence budget is disconnected from its own Defence Strategic Review. Defence funding and the plan for spending is business as usual when instead we need urgent action. Simply committing to the now seven-year-old...
