by Marcus Hellyer | May 2, 2024 | Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability
On Wednesday 23 April, the Albanese Government released its National Defence Strategy (NDS) and Integrated Investment Program (IIP). The NDS was foreshadowed in the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) and is meant to appear every two years, replacing Defence White Papers....
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Apr 13, 2024 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Devalued words and dollars damage Australia’s secu | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists assess the state of public decisions and defence policy making in Australia: the damaging path of ‘profound’ and ‘transformative’ policies that...
by Peter Jennings | Apr 12, 2024 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability
This is an edited version of an address to the Sir Richard Williams Foundation Conference on the Multi-domain Requirements of an Australian Maritime Strategy My thanks to the Williams Foundation for the opportunity to speak. I asked the organisers to add the phrase...
by Marcus Hellyer | Feb 13, 2024 | AUKUS, Defence Budget
This brief has been updated since Senate estimates hearings on the Defence portfolio on 14 February 2024 to incorporate discussion at that forum. What do we know about the budget for Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) program? Much commentary has focused on...
by Michael Shoebridge | Dec 1, 2023 | Defence Budget, 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...
