Subs, Subs, subs - 5 big events in the undersea world of AUKUS submarines
The Grumpy Strategists cover US budget cuts from 2 to 1 sub in its 2025 budget, the UK Parliament's report on the UK's failing nuclear reactor program, with Australia choosing this moment to give the ...
26 Mar 202425min
Grumpy Strategists Makers Series Episode 2 - Gilmour Space
In 12 years, Adam Gilmour has grown Gilmour Space to be able to design and build its own space launch rockets, satellite buses to carry users' payloads & now is running his own space launch facility i...
14 Mar 202420min
The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy - jarringly out of step with our world
Grumpy Strategists Marcus Hellyer & Michael Shoebridge have waded through the Australian Government's new Defence Industrial Development Strategy's 114 pages so you don't have to. The news is bad - t...
8 Mar 202427min
Grumpy Strategists - The Makers' Series Episode 1
This new Grumpy Strategists series talks with makers & leaders in Australian industry who are key to our security. Tom Loveard, the Chief Technology Officer and one of the founders of C2 Robotics is o...
28 Feb 202426min
A new plan for Australia's Navy - money, frigates & floating missile trucks, but no lessons from the Black or Red Seas
SAA's Grumpy Strategists review the Australian Government's "Enhanced Lethality Surface Combatant" Plan, which resurrects the 1990s habit of getting stuff 'fitted for but not with' key elements. It me...
22 Feb 202427min
2024 with a bang: Escalating war with de-escalating words, May budget expectations & broken disposals
The Grumpy Strategists look at the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the expectations the Albanese Government's reviews and delay have built up for the May Defence budget, and what could replace...
2 Feb 202429min
The Christmas-New Year Edition - indicators and warnings for the Defence Force - and a Christmas gift to a troubled department
In Episode 10, SAA's Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge discuss the indicators and warnings about the state of Australia's military coming out of the decision to not provide a warship to the multin...
31 Des 202336min
Episode 9 - 2024: global elections bring a fragmenting world, investing everywhere but into Australian industry, and those pesky proposed export controls
SAA's Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge look at the implications of elections from Taiwan, to India, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Poland and across the EU for collective action on everything ra...
9 Des 202336min
