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 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...
