by Michael Shoebridge and Marcus Hellyer | Apr 1, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability, Ukraine
The Gulf collective defence exercise: a war no one | RSS.com Marcus calls into the Grumpy Strategists’ Brindabella bunker with unwelcome news on more diesel supplies. After this disappointment, the Grumpies ponder the mystery of the Gulf War – a war...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 25, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Strategy & Capability
Our Kentucky Colonel masters deflection, the War & | RSS.com Well, despite the great news from Energy Minister Chris Bowen that Australia faces no energy crisis other than silly unwashed Australians panicking, the Iran War has already created a global energy...
by Ewen Levick | Mar 20, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Strategy & Capability
The war between the US, Israel and Iran is now entering its fourth week, and despite the loss of many senior figures, the Iranian regime survives. It is very difficult to bomb people into democracy. And so this war risks becoming a trial of strategic endurance....
by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 18, 2026 | Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Donald Trump’s greatest legacy is not going to be some kind of American economic renewal. It will be an America that is alone. His America First instincts have now reached a peak with his war against Iran. Aside from his Israeli partner, who has far more...
by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 16, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
After making a global mess, US President Donald Trump wants everyone else to clean it up. Luckily for the Albanese government – but also as a reward for their steadfast pursuit of a perfect, early 2000s-style small military sometime in the late 2040s –...
