by Marcus Hellyer | Apr 25, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Strategy & Capability
The Coalition’s announcement that it will increase defence spending is a long overdue acknowledgement that business as usual in national security is not a valid option. It’s intent to hit 2.5% of GDP over the next five years and 3.0% over the next ten is a much needed...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Apr 10, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Featured, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
The Grumpy Heard Island Edition: a risky America, | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists visit Trump tariffs’ Ground Zero on Heard Island. While President Trump’s shifting global moves are creating uncertainty about working with America, the good news is that...
by Peter Jennings | Apr 2, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Featured
In March the Chinese “research ship” Tan Suo Yi Hao worked with New Zealand scientists to send a miniature submarine 6km down to the bottom of the Pusegur Trench, collecting samples from the seabed. “I really hope they come back and look at the trenches again. There’s...
by Peter Jennings and Marcus Hellyer | Apr 1, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Featured, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: | RSS.com Grumpy Strategist Marcus Hellyer talks with co-founder Peter Jennings in SAA’s secure bunker deep in the Brindabella ranges. They discuss the puzzle of the Canberra consensus that Australia is in a much...
by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 26, 2025 | Defence Budget, Featured, Strategy & Capability
Cometh the moment, cometh the man goes the old saying. And the moment has certainly come. We have seen an unbroken string of destabilising and threatening international events over the past decade. Their impact on Australia’s security has been consistently...
