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 | Feb 12, 2024 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
The Defence 2023-24 Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) were published on Thursday 8 February. The PAES outlines changes to the Defence budget since the Portfolio Budget Statements were released in May 2023. In essences, it is the most current information...
by Marcus Hellyer | Feb 9, 2024 | AUKUS, Strategy & Capability
Will Australia’s AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) program deliver as promised? The unavoidable answer is no. That’s because megaprojects virtually never deliver. That’s the finding of the person who has probably studied more megaprojects than anybody else:...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Feb 2, 2024 | Defence Budget, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
2024 with a bang: Escalating war with de-escalating words, May budget expectations & broken disposals | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists look at the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the expectations and pressures the Albanese Government’s reviews and...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Dec 9, 2023 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Europe, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Ukraine
Episode 9 – 2024: global elections bring a fragmenting world, investing everywhere but into Australian industry, and those pesky proposed export controls | RSS.com Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge look at the implications of elections from Taiwan, to India,...