by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Dec 1, 2024 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Defence’s disappointing Annual Report & Hypersoni | RSS.com In Episode 30, Marcus and Michael look at what the numbers in Defence’s Annual Report tell us about Defence’s ‘fasttracked’ work on missiles, helicopters & ships. The...
by Michael Shoebridge, Peter Jennings and Marcus Hellyer | Nov 29, 2024 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability, Ukraine
This is the third report in the IPA-SAA Blueprint for Defence series that provides an action plan for reforming Defence. This new report focuses on what needs to change in how Defence acquires weapons and systems. It sets out how the Government in office after next...
by Marcus Hellyer | Nov 28, 2024 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Last year the US Navy’s Ghost Fleet visited Australia. This squadron consists of uncrewed surface vessels that are capable of long-range autonomous operations, a capability the Royal Australian Navy doesn’t yet have. But Australia does have its own ghost fleet: the...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Nov 13, 2024 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Podcasts, Policy
Episode 29: Washington cyber hygiene. Military shr | RSS.com In Episode 29, the Grumpy Strategists answer the call from Australia’s Embassy in Washington. They search for meaning in Defence’s new religious texts – the Strategic Review and Defence...
by Peter Jennings | Nov 7, 2024 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Strategy & Capability
During the 2016 presidential election I wrote that the United States desperately needed Captain America but instead got the Incredible Hulk. Now the Hulk is back and even stronger. That’s because he – Donald Trump that is – won both houses of congress. Sequels are...
