by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 26, 2025 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
We are in an age of upheaval. President Donald Trump’s actions are accelerating many of the strategic drivers that were already at work. These changes are not beneficial to Australia. While the mantra of ADF leaders has been “we’ll never fight alone”, even...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 22, 2025 | Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Episode 35: Australian ‘wombat resistance’ to Trum | RSS.com Marcus and Michael explore the Government’s confused position on disaster relief and the military. They assess the nuances in wombat-based pushback on US policies & set out the merits...
by Peter Jennings | Mar 18, 2025 | Strategy & Capability
The plan to upgrade the Collins-class submarines with a life-of-type extension is the single most important, and the highest risk, of Defence’s equipment projects. If the project can’t proceed or is too slow, we lose our ability to deploy...
by Marcus Hellyer, Michael Shoebridge and the ADM crew | Mar 11, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Walk This Way: Grumpies & ADM cover Defence hit Sl | RSS.com Not since Run DMC & Aerosmith did “Walk This Way” has there been a collaboration like this, except on…..defence stuff…. Marcus & Michael join the AustDefMagazine Crew to...
by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 8, 2025 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Elon Musk has the goal of saving $US1 trillion dollars from the US Federal Government’s expenditure by 30 September 2025. He has to find cuts of $4 billion every day until then. The sheer numbers mean Pentagon and US military power will be in the frame...
