by Peter Jennings | Dec 6, 2023 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Last weekend the three AUKUS defence ministers met in California to reflect on what their joint statement called the “exceptional progress” in the agreement. Richard Marles was effusive: in what has been “a truly momentous year” the three countries had made “an...
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...
by Marcus Hellyer | Nov 25, 2023 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Finally there is some good news in the defence shipbuilding space. On Thursday 24 November, the Australian Government announced that the West Australian shipbuilder Austal would build the Army’s new medium landing craft designed by NSW shipbuilder, Birdon. That’s good...
by Marcus Hellyer | Oct 26, 2023 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
“Gentlemen, we have run out of money, now we have to think”, is a quote attributed both to the physicist Ernest Rutherford and to Winston Churchill. The attribution is probably erroneous in both cases, but it’s a sentiment Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles might...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Sep 16, 2023 | Podcasts, Strategy & Capability, Ukraine
Sevastopol, $200 million Triton drones and Australian industry | RSS.com Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge discuss what the Ukrainian military’s attack on Sevasotopol says about navies & denial. This, along with lessons from Australia’s 25 year...
