Victory in the War for Influence & Invoicing: Australia's Mandarin Advisory Complex at work in two reports
President Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address warning of the US Military Industrial Complex echoes in Canberra today - but with industry and products replaced in the Canberra version by advisory servic...
17 Mar 1h 9min
The Iran war: Australia joins the "Coalescing of the Partly Willing"
Marcus and Michael get serious about biofuel, with a novel feedstock straight from Defence's Russell Offices. They look at the rapidly expanding Iran War, with multiple US partners getting pulled into...
10 Mar 49min
Iran War: bad guys, rose petals and donuts - Trump tries for the Big Maduro
Marcus and Michael reflect on their wisdom in modifying the Grumpies bunker to hold thousands of litres of diesel and 8 pallets of tinned tomatoes, as the war escalates in the Middle East. They set o...
4 Mar 43min
Plumbing new depths in politics. And Chinese sub numbers & PLA purges - actually mindboggling
Marcus goes diving to try to find rock bottom in Australian political discourse, but has to come up for air. He at least found the curious case of a Canberra cafe that police found had put up satiric...
26 Feb 35min
Mindboggling! celebrating $30 billion on sub sheds (not actual subs), while leaders outdo One Nation's darker instincts
The Grumpy Strategists boggle at the sheer chutzpah of PM Albanese and State Premier Malinauskas announcing as a triumph spending $30 billion & taking until 2040 to build submarine construction sheds ...
19 Feb 38min
Australia's defence budget update: a sugar hit followed by a $2.6bn cut. Take that, Mr Trump, sir!
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 smelly nug...
10 Feb 38min
Deceased estate: Oz Defence sells the silver to fund poor lifestyle choices, & US obliterating Iranian nukes (again).
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 dribble that ...
5 Feb 39min
Penguins, not principles, key to Australia's Trump management - & Ozzie maritime strategy tied to a collapsing US Navy
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 Trump-management eve...
21 Jan 34min
