by Michael Shoebridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Policy, Strategy & Capability
In a long peace, the ideal military is a sleepy one. An outfit and bunch of people that resemble stewards looking after a creature put into cryogenic hibernation, with vital systems barely ticking over. The stewards in charge do routine health and system...
by Peter Jennings and Marcus Hellyer | Apr 1, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: | RSS.com Grumpy Strategist Marcus Hellyer talks with co-founder Peter Jennings in SAA’s secure bunker deep in the Brindabella ranges. They discuss the puzzle of the Canberra consensus that Australia is in a much...
by Peter Jennings | Mar 25, 2025 | China, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability
The seven-front war against Israel is heating up once again and the intensity of fighting in Ukraine shows we are a long way away from a sustainable peace. China meanwhile, in the words of Admiral Samuel J. Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, is not only...
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...
