by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 26, 2025 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Cometh the moment, cometh the man goes the old saying. And the moment has certainly come. We have seen an unbroken string of destabilising and threatening international events over the past decade. Their impact on Australia’s security has been consistently...
by Peter Jennings | Mar 25, 2025 | China, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability
The seven-front war against Israel is heating up once again and the intensity of fighting in Ukraine shows we are a long way away from a sustainable peace. China meanwhile, in the words of Admiral Samuel J. Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, is not only...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 22, 2025 | Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Episode 35: Australian ‘wombat resistance’ to Trum | RSS.com Marcus and Michael explore the Government’s confused position on disaster relief and the military. They assess the nuances in wombat-based pushback on US policies & set out the merits...
by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 5, 2025 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability, Uncategorized
The Government recently released the 2024-25 Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) which are meant to report on how departments are going at delivering on the policy goals and spending plans set out in the Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS). This year’s...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Feb 27, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Episode 33 – Grumpy Strategists live at the Austra | RSS.com Recorded at the 2025 Australian Defence Magazine Congress, the Grumpies look at the world & ask so what? Oz is facing a national crisis due to events in the US, with Russia & Europe, &...