by Marcus Hellyer | May 30, 2024 | AUKUS, Strategy & Capability
Key Points The plan to put all six Collins-class submarines through an extensive and risky life of type extension (LOTE) that could keep some in service well into the 2040s is an artefact of the previous submarine transition plan that aimed to reach a fleet of 12...
by Paddy Gregg and Michael Shoebridge | May 29, 2024 | Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
The Grumpy Strategist Makers’ Series Episode – Aus | RSS.com Michael Shoebridge talks with Paddy Gregg, CEO of Austal, about the company’s history as a builder of commercial and military vessels for decades now. We discuss its stocked up order book...
by Graeme Dunk | Apr 15, 2024 | Policy, Strategy & Capability
Deterrence has been this Government’s mantra from the early stages of its time in office. Initially promoted under the guise of “impactful projection”, the position was reinforced in the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) with the stated, repeated, need to ‘focus on...
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 Robert Nioa and Michael Shoebridge | Apr 4, 2024 | Podcasts, Policy
Grumpy Strategist Makers Series episode 3 – NIOA G | RSS.com From a small sporting shooting goods supplier in 1973, NIOA Group has grown to be a major munitions and weapons supplier to Australia’s military and law enforcement organisations. Robert Nioa...
