by Marcus Hellyer | Feb 21, 2024 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
The Government has released the broad brushstrokes of a plan for the structure of the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet and for the approach to naval shipbuilding to deliver that fleet. This plan is based on the independent review of the navy’s surface fleet that...
by Michael Shoebridge | Feb 21, 2024 | China, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
It has taken two reviews and 19 months for Defence Minister Richard Marles to understand the Royal Australian Navy is broken. The plans it had to get new warships into the fleet were delivering too late to matter, and the navy’s eight elderly Anzac-class frigates have...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Feb 2, 2024 | Defence Budget, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
2024 with a bang: Escalating war with de-escalating words, May budget expectations & broken disposals | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists look at the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the expectations and pressures the Albanese Government’s reviews and...
