A Grumpy Strategist meets Taiwan's Australian rep: world health, regional security, economics & trade - Episode 43
Taiwan's representative in Australia, Douglas Hsu, talks with a Grumpy Strategist about the World Health Assembly, now as a time to reinforce multilateral & international organisations, and paths to r...
6 Juni 202529min
Episode 42 - the Meaning of Life, drones, world's 'biggliest' airstrike & self destructing Democrats
Marcus and Michael set out fast moving developments in military use of drones. they're happening not just in Ukraine, but in Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Singapore and the UK (just not in Australia). T...
29 Maj 202537min
Attention Deficit Disorder debuts as global foreign policy, while muddy siloes contrast with Golden Domes.
The Grumpy Strategists road test Incat's latest product, the 130m electric ship "China Zorrilla", while assessing the whiplash shifts in American engagement with the Middle East. They contrast the amb...
21 Maj 202535min
Grumpy Strategists Popes and Prime Ministers edition - Episode 40
Marcus beams in from the Vatican after running the numbers for Pope Bob, while Michael fights his way through the clouds of smug spilling from the re-elected Labor government and a deeply relieved, co...
9 Maj 202536min
Grumpy Strategists Episode 39: Elections, defence, cash, chainsaws and long bonnet syndrome.
Marcus and Michael go through the -sparse - highlights of Australia's election campaign from a defence perspective - the Coalition's policy release has shifted the defence permafrost on funding and ca...
28 Apr 202538min
Grumpy Strategists' Defence Dollars and Decisions edition
This is the audio only version of the Grumpies' first video podcast. The full version is available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le9t8gRT380
17 Apr 202552min
The Grumpies' Heard Island Edition: a risky America, determined penguins - & Australians see nothing happening.
The Grumpy Strategists visit Trump tariffs' Ground Zero on Heard Island. While President Trump's shifting global moves are creating uncertainty about working with America, the good news is that Austra...
10 Apr 202541min
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: caught between China & the US, Australia fixates on a 2040 Fantasy Force
Grumpy Strategist Marcus Hellyer talks with co-founder Peter Jennings in SAA's secure bunker deep in the Brindabella ranges. They discuss the puzzle of the Canberra consensus that Australia is in a mu...
1 Apr 202533min
