The Grumpy Strategists
By Strategic Analysis Australia
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The Grumpy Strategists chat about defence and security issues, from an Australian perspective. We say simple things about complicated issues that help cut through the politics and careful bureaucratic talking points. Critical but constructive conversations about the big security and technology issues affecting our world. RSSVERIFY
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Zen and the Art of Defence investment: big numbers for everyone - Episode 70
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May 01, 2026 |
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The Grumpy Strategists cover Australia's new defence plan: a strategy of denial that the world has changed
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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America's wartime defense budget: $1.5 trillion to deliver a military able to fight everyone - except China.....
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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The Gulf collective defence exercise: a war no one admits to fighting
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Our Kentucky Colonel masters deflection, the War & AUKUS sub outcomes - magical thinking meets US & UK partner realities
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Victory in the War for Influence & Invoicing: Australia's Mandarin Advisory Complex at work in two reports
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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The Iran war: Australia joins the "Coalescing of the Partly Willing"
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Iran War: bad guys, rose petals and donuts - Trump tries for the Big Maduro
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Plumbing new depths in politics. And Chinese sub numbers & PLA purges - actually mindboggling
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Mindboggling! celebrating $30 billion on sub sheds (not actual subs), while leaders outdo One Nation's darker instincts
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Australia's defence budget update: a sugar hit followed by a $2.6bn cut. Take that, Mr Trump, sir!
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Deceased estate: Oz Defence sells the silver to fund poor lifestyle choices, & US obliterating Iranian nukes (again).
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Penguins, not principles, key to Australia's Trump management - & Ozzie maritime strategy tied to a collapsing US Navy
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Trump's edifice complex gets Grumpy, & 2025 strategic & Aussie military takeaways
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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AUKUS gets steamy, & cherrypicking can't make the US National Security Strategy good news
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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The hunt for Defence reform downunder: Mr Conroy & the Yeti. And the mystery of sea control with a tiny fleet
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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A democratic lockdown fit for an authoritarian & marking Defence's Annual Report homework Part 1
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Australian industry gets more Aussie, while Australia writes defence cheques it can't cash
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Trump's Asia Tour: replica-crowned with success, and stalemated. And 'Nuclear Submarines For EVERYONE!!!!'
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Albanese meets Trump: champagne all round - but a harder meeting would've been better for Australian security & the alliance
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Episode 50: With friends like this...& Why spend real money on defence when you can just seem to?
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Europe's lessons in dealing with unreliability, extended deterrence for Aussie streets & lost luggage
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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The Ambassadors Series - a Grumpy Strategist meets a high energy Ukrainian Ambassador
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Episode 48: Grumpy But Grand Strategy - Australia's Two Pillars are both in trouble
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Episode 47 Ground truthing Australia's drone journey & the UK's military & industrial base
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Grumpy Strategist Makers Series - with Beaten Zone's Steve Baxter
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Oh dear, what have you done to my fleet!? & Is Australia now bandwagoning AND free-riding??
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The AUKUS emergency episode: What-the-Hell-Just Happpppppened? The Trump Review'n'stuff
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Common defence Myth Takes, North Korean real estate, & UK defence review echoes Oz
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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A Grumpy Strategist meets Taiwan's Australian rep: world health, regional security, economics & trade - Episode 43
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Episode 42 - the Meaning of Life, drones, world's 'biggliest' airstrike & self destructing Democrats
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May 29, 2025 |
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Attention Deficit Disorder debuts as global foreign policy, while muddy siloes contrast with Golden Domes.
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May 21, 2025 |
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Grumpy Strategists Popes and Prime Ministers edition - Episode 40
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May 09, 2025 |
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Grumpy Strategists Episode 39: Elections, defence, cash, chainsaws and long bonnet syndrome.
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Grumpy Strategists' Defence Dollars and Decisions edition
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The Grumpies' Heard Island Edition: a risky America, determined penguins - & Australians see nothing happening.
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: caught between China & the US, Australia fixates on a 2040 Fantasy Force
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Episode 35: Australian 'wombat resistance' to Trump begins, the masterplan for zero tariffs and debates swirl on "Plan B' for security
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Walk This Way: Grumpies & ADM cover Defence hit 'Slowrollin' & try the new Coke Zero flavour of US alliances
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Episode 33 - Grumpy Strategists live at the Australian Defence Magazine 2025 Congress
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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When Karens take power; building a hedge of frigates, & missile maths - Episode 32
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Episiode 31- Biden valedictory, Trump 2.0 prelude & Bad Santa's little Canberra helpers release more reviews
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Defence's disappointing Annual Report & Hypersonic Hyperbole meets Houthi hard work
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Episode 29: Washington cyber hygiene. Military shrinks while plans proliferate, Marles keeps balls in the air
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Episode 28: Sub schedules on fire, Deterrence by Documentation & a guided weapons go slow
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Episode 27 - Gullible Goldfish, Ghost Fleets & a nasty bout of 'enshittification'
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Episode 26: Acceleration - that word doesn't mean what you think it means
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Episode 25 -the Army gets wet. An empty AUKUS sub plan damages trust
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Makin' missiles, a business insurgency & schedule as comedy - Episode 24
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Disappearing tanks, million dollar missiles, SNAUKUS and the bear that's driving the US election - Episode 23
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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The Great Debates: a civil nuclear debate
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Post-shot US election update, Ukrainian & Ozzie drones, spies and public money
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Grumpy Strategist Makers' Series - the workforce edition with KINEXUS
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Consequences, consequences: budget settings starve the Air Force & a bureaucracy avoids scrutiny
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Episode 20: Cringers, crawlers, walkers & runners with a dash of AI, cults, conspiracies, pyramids & portals.
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Episode 19 - Collins subs life extension realities & Permits for Everyone: the lazy new SAMS law
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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The Grumpy Strategist Makers' Series Episode - Austal
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May 29, 2024 |
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The post-Budget blues edition: Backloaded cash, unachievable plans and Collins dies young
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May 17, 2024 |
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The numerology of Australia's new National Defence Strategy & investment plan
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May 05, 2024 |
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Devalued words and dollars damage Australia's security
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Grumpy Strategist Makers Series Episode 3 - NIOA Group
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Subs, Subs, subs - 5 big events in the undersea world of AUKUS submarines
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Grumpy Strategists Makers Series Episode 2 - Gilmour Space
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy - jarringly out of step with our world
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Grumpy Strategists - The Makers' Series Episode 1
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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A new plan for Australia's Navy - money, frigates & floating missile trucks, but no lessons from the Black or Red Seas
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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2024 with a bang: Escalating war with de-escalating words, May budget expectations & broken disposals
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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The Christmas-New Year Edition - indicators and warnings for the Defence Force - and a Christmas gift to a troubled department
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Episode 9 - 2024: global elections bring a fragmenting world, investing everywhere but into Australian industry, and those pesky proposed export controls
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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AUKUS own goals - Australia's new draft export controls
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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The Travel and Accountability Edition: Tuvalu, leadership failure & the Hunter frigates, and the B-21
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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The Estimates Edition: a recruitment crisis, fragile fleets & lessons from America
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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The Israel-Hamas war, deterrence failures & hostage diplomacy Beijing style
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Army shape shifting, helicopter troubles & Mr Albanese goes to Washington & Beijing
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Sevastopol, $200 million Triton drones and Australian industry
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Naval Shipbuilding without ships & a Navy review about what?
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Health check on Australia's Defence Strategic Review
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Sep 11, 2023 |