by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Apr 13, 2024 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Devalued words and dollars damage Australia’s secu | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists assess the state of public decisions and defence policy making in Australia: the damaging path of ‘profound’ and ‘transformative’ policies that...
by Peter Jennings | Apr 12, 2024 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability
This is an edited version of an address to the Sir Richard Williams Foundation Conference on the Multi-domain Requirements of an Australian Maritime Strategy My thanks to the Williams Foundation for the opportunity to speak. I asked the organisers to add the phrase...
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...
by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 8, 2024 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has expressed his concerns with the quality of advice coming from the Department of Defence’s leadership. He has stated there are issues of ‘culture within the senior leadership’ and apparently, less than...
by Peter Jennings | Feb 18, 2024 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Richard Marles and Pat Conroy, our Defence and Defence Industry ministers, are living the lonely nightmare of seeing their careers sputter from a succession of policy and implementation failures. They are hardly alone. Marles is the 10th defence minister since the...
