by Marcus Hellyer | Oct 17, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Strategy & Capability
The Trump administration has been calling on its partners and allies to lift defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP. NATO has agreed to that benchmark, with another 1.5 per cent thrown in for vaguely defined national resilience and critical infrastructure programs....
by Graeme Dunk | Sep 29, 2025 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Sovereignty was once, fleetingly, the poster child of Australian defence policy and pronouncements. While it continues to be mentioned, it’s now in such a vague and superficial way that it has been emptied of meaning. This is a mistake. Sovereignty will be, needs to...
by Vasyl Myroshnychenko and Michael Shoebridge | Aug 19, 2025 | Podcasts, Ukraine
The Ambassadors Series – a Grumpy Strategist meets | RSS.com Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko speaks with a grumpy strategist about his path from business to diplomacy, & the surreal experience of families – including his – like fighting...
by Michael Shoebridge | Aug 7, 2025 | Strategy & Capability
Japan’s Mogami class frigate bid has beaten the German alternative to win the Australian Navy’s general purpose frigate project, which has a budget over the ten years covered in Defence’s investment plan of some $10 billion (with more required beyond that to deliver...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Aug 2, 2025 | AUKUS, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Episode 47 Ground truthing Australia’s drone journ | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists drill into the facts behind Australian Govt announcements on drones to find disappointment: celebrating $16.9m on counter drone systems while spending $11m per day on AUKUS puts...
