Consequences, consequences: budget settings starve the Air Force & a bureaucracy avoids scrutiny
The Grumpy Strategists outline the structural consequences for the Air Force from the new permanent spend on ships & subs in the Defence budget. They cover another structural issue damaging Australia'...
29 Jun 202428min
Episode 20: Cringers, crawlers, walkers & runners with a dash of AI, cults, conspiracies, pyramids & portals.
The Grumpy Strategists look at the emerging cult of AUKUS & its faith-based arrangements. They also set out who is going to win the US election using very dubious 'psycho social analysis' from Michae...
18 Jun 202435min
Episode 19 - Collins subs life extension realities & Permits for Everyone: the lazy new SAMS law
The Grumpy Strategists set out practical ways that the plans for keeping Australia's Collins class subs operating might need to change to enable the AUKUS Virginia class subs to be brought into Austra...
6 Jun 202436min
The Grumpy Strategist Makers' Series Episode - Austal
Michael Shoebridge talks with Paddy Gregg, CEO of Austal, about the company's history as a builder of commercial and military vessels for decades now. We discuss its stocked up order book both here & ...
29 Mai 202422min
The post-Budget blues edition: Backloaded cash, unachievable plans and Collins dies young
In Episode 18, the Grumpy Strategists look at the challenges, contradictions and half truths the numbers in the 2024 Defence Budget reveal. The headline early $5.7 billion turns out not to turn up unt...
17 Mai 202426min
The numerology of Australia's new National Defence Strategy & investment plan
In Episode 17, Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge assess the foundations of defence minister Richard Marles' new National Defence Strategy, looking for clarity and focus that the welter of prioriti...
5 Mai 202435min
Devalued words and dollars damage Australia's security
The Grumpy Strategists assess the state of public decision and policy making in Australia: the damaging path of 'profound' and "transformative' policies that aren't; the distracting symbolic political...
12 Apr 202422min
Grumpy Strategist Makers Series Episode 3 - NIOA Group
From a small sporting shooting goods supplier in 1973, NIOA Group has grown to be a major munitions and weapons supplier to Australia's military and law enforcement organisations. Robert Nioa talks wi...
3 Apr 202424min
