by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 26, 2025 | Defence Budget, 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...
by Peter Jennings | Mar 18, 2025 | Strategy & Capability
The plan to upgrade the Collins-class submarines with a life-of-type extension is the single most important, and the highest risk, of Defence’s equipment projects. If the project can’t proceed or is too slow, we lose our ability to deploy...
by Marcus Hellyer, Michael Shoebridge and the ADM crew | Mar 11, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Walk This Way: Grumpies & ADM cover Defence hit Sl | RSS.com Not since Run DMC & Aerosmith did “Walk This Way” has there been a collaboration like this, except on…..defence stuff…. Marcus & Michael join the AustDefMagazine Crew to...
by Peter Jennings | Mar 6, 2025 | AUKUS, Policy
President Donald Trump delivered a strong speech to the US Congress, departing from his script only occasionally to needle unhappy Democratic Party members in his audience. The speech was a mix of longstanding Trump themes: strengthening borders; deporting...
by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 3, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability
It’s important not to panic and to jump at ghosts and shadows. But when the facts change, a sane person changes their plans. Simply continuing down the same path while ignoring reality is as irresponsible as wildly panicking. And the facts have changed—the second...
