by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Feb 10, 2026 | Defence Budget, Featured, Podcasts
Australia’s defence budget update: a sugar hit fol | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists pan for gold in 234 pages of dense, incoherent Government paperwork setting out the Albanese Government’s revised plans for our nation’s defence, and find some rather...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Feb 5, 2026 | Defence Budget, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Deceased estate: Oz Defence sells the silver to fu | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists look at the recent ‘historic” plan for Australia’s Defence real estate (okay, a shameless Government asset sale of historic sites to perhaps produce a one-off cash...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jan 21, 2026 | Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Penguins, not principles, key to Australia’s Trump | RSS.com Marcus & Michael pull together a deal Australian PM Albanese can offer to his great & powerful pal, US President Trump, at his first meeting of the Board of Peace, with lessons in...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jan 5, 2026 | Policy, Strategy & Capability
Donald Trump ordered the US military and CIA to abduct Venezuela’s president Maduro and his wife – and in a stunning raid against the Venezuelan capital, the US military did just that. It was a confronting use of military force by America that will...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Dec 12, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Europe, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
AUKUS gets steamy, & cherrypicking can’t make the | RSS.com Well, well, well. the Pentagon’s AUKUS review is out – well, actually under lock and key, but apparently its’ great news that is about “strengthening” AUKUS. Hard to...
