by Michael Shoebridge | May 30, 2025 | Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Episode 42 – the Meaning of Life, with drones, the | RSS.com Marcus and Michael set out fast moving developments in military use of drones. they’re happening not just in Ukraine, but in Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Singapore and the UK (just not in...
by Michael Shoebridge | May 21, 2025 | Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Attention Deficit disorder debuts as global foreig | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists road test Incat’s latest product, the 130m electric ship “China Zorrilla”, while assessing the whiplash shifts in American engagement with the Middle East. They...
by Michael Shoebridge | May 1, 2025 | Defence Budget, Policy
Australia is spending more and more taxpayers’ dollars equipping our Defence Force, but it is buying less and less. We’re in a spiralling affordability crisis leading to a shrinking Australian military and a bankrupt Defence organisation. The problem comes from the...
by Peter Jennings | Apr 28, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
At last we have a measurable and important policy difference between Labor and the Coalition with Peter Dutton’s plan to lift defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP across five years and to 3 per cent by 2035. Labor’s plan is to lift defence spending slowly to 2.4...
by Michael Shoebridge | Apr 23, 2025 | China, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
It’s been an extraordinary gap in the debate around our federal election that no one has got to grips with the need to make Australia more secure fast. We’ve watched Chinese warships sail around our country firing their weapons. And we’re seeing Russia building a...
