@JAParker29 Gotta agree with you whole-heartedly there, Jen.
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Marcus Hellyer
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Marcus Hellyer
@DefenceDollars
Defence economics and capability | Birdwatching and photography
Katılım Mart 2018
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Actually - I trust the women who have done the jobs and the medical experts. How dare anyone degrade the service of women in frontline land combat roles since 2013 - & of course women (including me) have been in frontline combat roles in the other domains for decades.
Steve Kuper@SteveKuper2
I trust the judgement and informed opinion of a man who has been in combat at the tip of the spear over a dandy who has only ever been a professional hack #auspol
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@trader51 @AndrewBGreene @heyycourtt That's why we have the fancy VIP KC-30A. Can't expect DPM and his entourage to travel in a 737.
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@AndrewBGreene @heyycourtt Is he entitled to a bigger jet too, surely DPM doesn’t have to slum it in a jet afforded to Defence Minister 🤷♂️
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“As the newly elected Deputy Prime Minister I am advised that I am entitled to additional office space”
abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…
(story via @heyycourtt)
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@redunley Ukraine drove the Russian navy from the Black Sea using cheap, disposable drones and not a single ship. There. Done.
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Looks really good. It would be great if someone put together something similar about the war at sea.
Guy Plopsky@GuyPlopsky
Re-upping this. The book will be published on August 1.
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Episode 7 of the Grumpy Strategists out now. Observations on Indo Pac 23 trade show and B-21 first flight, as well as translating Defence's internal review of what went wrong in the Hunter frigate selection process into regular English.
shorturl.at/nrsZ6
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I'm looking for a term that's similar to "hindsight bias" but not quite. It's the tendency to retrospectively normalise radical change. As in, an action or event overturns the status quo, but we look back on it as uncontroversial or typical. Is there a term for that?
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Episode 6 of the Grumpy Strategists is now live. What did we learn at Senate estimates hearings last week?
strategicanalysis.org/grumpy-strateg…
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@redunley The trials of Job. That's the story about believing in something that deliberately turns your life to shit
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Does anyone know where the section of the Bible on AUKUS is?
I did a word search for SSNs but got nothing.
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Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski
Speaker Mike Johnson tonight: “Someone asked me today in the media, ‘People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue?’ I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.”
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@VKAbramowicz @redunley It gets complicated. Some wanted ASW-focused frigate - but what's the point of an ASW frigate if it's sunk by a missile? And what's going to carry all your missiles? Can the RAN have warships with a narrow mission? And if it's about ASW, why get a frigate in the first place?
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@DefenceDollars @redunley Idk, I recall there in CDG that it was always meant to be an ASW frigate. But things change…
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BAE coming out swinging over Hunter.
Interesting reference to "building a different ship overseas" - whilst I have mentioned this possibility (and there are precedents) Ive not seen it in the public debate much before.
theaustralian.com.au/special-report…
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@VKAbramowicz @redunley And that's really the heart of the issue. SEA 5000 lacked conceptual clarity. It became all things to all people
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@redunley @DefenceDollars Concur. Also, since when is this an AAW project? The RAN requirement was for an ASW vessel. Don’t get me wrong, more vls is better than less, but we fight subs with heloes, not ASROC. The 96 VLS is a bit of a sop.
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@SeanAndrews65 @navalnewscom In contrast Australia has spent years insisting that F-35B is pointless in archipelagic environments
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Rather smart & determined capability delivery.
Japan Prepares For F-35B Carrier Operations navalnews.com/naval-news/202… via @navalnewscom
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Grumpy Strategists Episode 4 is out.
Lots to grump about this week - Army reorg, collapse of Army helicopter capability, PM's upcoming adventures in Washington and Beijing.
P.S. The Grumpy Strategists can now be found on Spotify.
shorturl.at/dfnCW
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So new Arafura class OPVs have no big gun, no missiles, no speed, no helicopter - and now no UAV?
Dare I hope that this is part of a cunning plan to instead get an awesome UAV made by an Aussie company... Am prolly just dreaming...
shorturl.at/fjHOU
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@mac95871978 @redunley What? We are getting Tomahawks to assassinate regional coup leaders?
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@redunley This is where I totally disagree with you. Creating doubt is the very fundamental of deterrence. The ability to convince some regional coup leader that his actions will result in 12 tomahawks on his head in 90 minutes, with no ability for him to confirm or disprove is the very
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Doubt regarding what though? I have huge respect for VADM Mead and his team, but we desperately need to go beyond this frankly rather banal line that we are buying a $368BN "Question Mark".
Alex Bristow 史德礼@AlexBristowASPI
Criticism that SSNs aren’t appropriate because they can operate far from our shores misses the point - the advantage of SSNs is that they instil maximum doubt in an adversary’s mind, says @AustSubAgency head VADM Jonathan Mead to @JAParker29 @ASPI_org Conference #DisruptandDeter
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My latest Strategic Analysis Australian piece has some thoughts on why simplistic dismissals of Australia's industrial base are misleading. The inputs that go into generating our huge resource exports can be used to generate defence capability.
shorturl.at/cprst
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@JasonThomasDeM1 Yup, if we are spending $368 billion, then a few billion more for concrete and air defence is mandatory. The bad guys are going to try to kill our SSNs before they ever go to sea
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I did say that B-21s would be an awesome ASW platform since subs spend most of their lives in plain view...
Ukrainian Bombers Firing Western Cruise Missiles Have Knocked Out A Russian Submarine forbes.com/sites/davidaxe…
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Just wait til he takes the train from Sydney to Canberra. He ain't seen nothing yet
Greg Raymond@GregoryVRaymond
Biggest moment for the Belt and Road Initiative in SE Asia since Lao-China railway opened in Dec 2021: Jokowi travelled on the Chinese-built Jakarta to Bandung highspeed railway today, travelling at speeds up to 350kmh.
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@JAParker29 And the USN doesn't have an answer to the cost-capability death spiral either. Their fleet is ageing and numbers going backwards too.
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‘This govt. has asked an American to tell us what warships to buy, rather than relying on its own navy’s advice’. |
A poignant and worthy read by Rowan Moffitt. Whilst I don’t agree with all elements, we do need to ask ourselves how did we get here?
afr.com/policy/foreign…
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@redunley @JAParker29 The problem is that without an Australian commercial shipping industry, there's no workforce pool to draw upon.
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Really important argument being made here by @JAParker29
aspistrategist.org.au/time-to-re-est…
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