by Marcus Hellyer, Peter Jennings and Michael Shoebridge | Oct 8, 2024 | China, Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and its strategic outlook are in crisis and urgent action is needed. The key recommendation of this report is that, following the next election, the government must take urgent steps to boost Australian production of weapons,...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jul 30, 2024 | Strategy & Capability
$800 million developing ‘Ghost Bat’, which was meant to be ‘Australia’s first locally designed combat aircraft in 50 years’, turns out to now be being spent on a platform that will carry sensors instead of weapons. This is an own goal, with a firehose of public...
by Marcus Hellyer and Rob Kremer | Jul 3, 2024 | Podcasts, Policy
The Grumpy Strategists | RSS.com In Episode 5, SAA’s Marcus Hellyer talks with Rob Kremer, Kinexus’ Director and Defence Sector lead about defence industry prospects and pressures. Rob puts the workforce demands by Defence into a wider economic and...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jun 18, 2024 | AUKUS, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Episode 20: Cringers, crawlers, walkers & runners | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists look at the emerging cult of AUKUS & its faith-based arrangements. They also set out who is going to win the US election using very dubious ‘psycho social analysis’...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 8, 2024 | Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy – jarringly out of step with our world | RSS.com Grumpy Strategists Marcus Hellyer & Michael Shoebridge have waded through the Australian Government’s new Defence Industrial Development...
