by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Apr 17, 2026 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
The Grumpy Strategists cover Australia’s new defen | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists respond to Australia’s defence minister, Richard Marles, discussing and releasing the ‘new’ 2026 Defence Strategy and investment plan. Marcus sees the spirit of...
by Marcus Hellyer | Apr 17, 2026 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability, Uncategorized
There’s something very familiar about the Albanese government’s new 2026 National Defence Strategy, launched yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles. It continues the trajectory first set out in the previous Coalition government’s 2020...
by Marcus Hellyer | Apr 10, 2026 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Since my planned birdwatching trip to western New South Wales was cancelled due the current fuel crisis temporary supply uncertainties caused by unpatriotic Australians panic buying and I didn’t want to spend Easter solely doomscrolling conducting deep research into...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Apr 9, 2026 | Defence Budget, Featured, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
America’s wartime defense budget: $1.5 trillion to | RSS.com Back in the SAA Bunker deep in the Brindabellas, Marcus & Michael declare energy independence (okay, thanks to government subsidies) and ponder the details of the Trump Administration’s new...
by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 30, 2026 | China, Featured, Policy
We’re told the Trump Administration is playing 16-dimensional chess in its reshaping of the world economy to make America great again. But the chess moves we’ve seen so far in the key auto manufacturing sector are damaging own goals that hurt America’s homegrown...
