The Grumpy Strategists

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

The Great Debates: a civil nuclear debate
Jul 26, 2024 – 37:03
Grumpy Strategist Makers' Series - the workforce edition with KINEXUS
Jul 3, 2024 – 25:29
The Grumpy Strategist Makers' Series Episode - Austal
May 29, 2024 – 22:55
Grumpy Strategist Makers Series Episode 3 - NIOA Group
Apr 3, 2024 – 24:23
Grumpy Strategists Makers Series Episode 2 - Gilmour Space
Mar 14, 2024 – 20:27
Grumpy Strategists - The Makers' Series Episode 1
Feb 28, 2024 – 26:22
The AUKUS emergency episode: What-the-Hell-Just Happpppppened? The Trump Review'n'stuff
Jun 15, 2025 – 26:35
Common defence Myth Takes, North Korean real estate, & UK defence review echoes Oz
Jun 13, 2025 – 43:33
A Grumpy Strategist meets Taiwan's Australian rep: world health, regional security, economics & trade - Episode 43
Jun 6, 2025 – 29:03
Episode 42 - the Meaning of Life, drones, world's 'biggliest' airstrike & self destructing Democrats
May 29, 2025 – 37:48
Attention Deficit Disorder debuts as global foreign policy, while muddy siloes contrast with Golden Domes.
May 21, 2025 – 35:41
Grumpy Strategists Popes and Prime Ministers edition - Episode 40
May 9, 2025 – 36:27
Grumpy Strategists Episode 39: Elections, defence, cash, chainsaws and long bonnet syndrome.
Apr 28, 2025 – 38:40
Grumpy Strategists' Defence Dollars and Decisions edition
Apr 17, 2025 – 52:33
The Grumpies' Heard Island Edition: a risky America, determined penguins - & Australians see nothing happening.
Apr 10, 2025 – 41:18
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: caught between China & the US, Australia fixates on a 2040 Fantasy Force
Apr 1, 2025 – 33:43
Episode 35: Australian 'wombat resistance' to Trump begins, the masterplan for zero tariffs and debates swirl on "Plan B' for security
Mar 22, 2025 – 34:48
Walk This Way: Grumpies & ADM cover Defence hit 'Slowrollin' & try the new Coke Zero flavour of US alliances
Mar 11, 2025 – 57:57
Episode 33 - Grumpy Strategists live at the Australian Defence Magazine 2025 Congress
Feb 27, 2025 – 29:03
When Karens take power; building a hedge of frigates, & missile maths - Episode 32
Feb 14, 2025 – 42:14
Episiode 31- Biden valedictory, Trump 2.0 prelude & Bad Santa's little Canberra helpers release more reviews
Jan 21, 2025 – 42:46
Defence's disappointing Annual Report & Hypersonic Hyperbole meets Houthi hard work
Dec 1, 2024 – 36:35
Episode 29: Washington cyber hygiene. Military shrinks while plans proliferate, Marles keeps balls in the air
Nov 13, 2024 – 41:47
Episode 28: Sub schedules on fire, Deterrence by Documentation & a guided weapons go slow
Nov 4, 2024 – 26:06
Episode 27 - Gullible Goldfish, Ghost Fleets & a nasty bout of 'enshittification'
Oct 23, 2024 – 38:13
Episode 26: Acceleration - that word doesn't mean what you think it means
Sep 25, 2024 – 39:45
Episode 25 -the Army gets wet. An empty AUKUS sub plan damages trust
Sep 12, 2024 – 30:48
Makin' missiles, a business insurgency & schedule as comedy - Episode 24
Aug 29, 2024 – 25:00
Disappearing tanks, million dollar missiles, SNAUKUS and the bear that's driving the US election - Episode 23
Aug 14, 2024 – 27:38
Post-shot US election update, Ukrainian & Ozzie drones, spies and public money
Jul 18, 2024 – 35:40
Consequences, consequences: budget settings starve the Air Force & a bureaucracy avoids scrutiny
Jun 29, 2024 – 28:20
Episode 20: Cringers, crawlers, walkers & runners with a dash of AI, cults, conspiracies, pyramids & portals.
Jun 18, 2024 – 35:44
Episode 19 - Collins subs life extension realities & Permits for Everyone: the lazy new SAMS law
Jun 6, 2024 – 36:36
The post-Budget blues edition: Backloaded cash, unachievable plans and Collins dies young
May 17, 2024 – 26:36
The numerology of Australia's new National Defence Strategy & investment plan
May 5, 2024 – 35:05
Devalued words and dollars damage Australia's security
Apr 12, 2024 – 22:24
Subs, Subs, subs - 5 big events in the undersea world of AUKUS submarines
Mar 26, 2024 – 25:32
The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy - jarringly out of step with our world
Mar 8, 2024 – 27:10
A new plan for Australia's Navy - money, frigates & floating missile trucks, but no lessons from the Black or Red Seas
Feb 22, 2024 – 27:42
2024 with a bang: Escalating war with de-escalating words, May budget expectations & broken disposals
Feb 2, 2024 – 29:02
The Christmas-New Year Edition - indicators and warnings for the Defence Force - and a Christmas gift to a troubled department
Dec 31, 2023 – 36:17
Episode 9 - 2024: global elections bring a fragmenting world, investing everywhere but into Australian industry, and those pesky proposed export controls
Dec 9, 2023 – 36:57
AUKUS own goals - Australia's new draft export controls
Nov 20, 2023 – 26:50
The Travel and Accountability Edition: Tuvalu, leadership failure & the Hunter frigates, and the B-21
Nov 13, 2023 – 32:32
The Estimates Edition: a recruitment crisis, fragile fleets & lessons from America
Oct 30, 2023 – 31:17
The Israel-Hamas war, deterrence failures & hostage diplomacy Beijing style
Oct 13, 2023 – 24:00
Army shape shifting, helicopter troubles & Mr Albanese goes to Washington & Beijing
Oct 3, 2023 – 32:39
Sevastopol, $200 million Triton drones and Australian industry
Sep 15, 2023 – 18:57
Naval Shipbuilding without ships & a Navy review about what?
Sep 11, 2023 – 21:38
Health check on Australia's Defence Strategic Review
Sep 11, 2023 – 18:02