{"podcast":{"title":"The Grumpy Strategists","slug":"the-grumpy-strategists-6607649","podcast_index_feed_id":6607649,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-grumpy-strategists/feed.xml","website_url":"https://strategicanalysis.org/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-grumpy-strategists/20230911_060948_e3b12350ef3f1b0224fb0fffc1f3fca8.jpg","author":"Strategic Analysis Australia","episode_count":85,"summary":"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","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T08:17:01.603987+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649"},"episode":{"title":"The Grumpy Strategists cover Australia's new defence plan: a strategy of denial that the world has changed","slug":"the-grumpy-strategists-cover-australia-s-new-defence-plan-a-strategy-of-denial-that-the-world-has-changed","published_at":"2026-04-17T09:35:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/the-grumpy-strategists-cover-australia-s-new-defence-plan-a-strategy-of-denial-that-the-world-has-changed","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists/2742962","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/228146/2742962/the-grumpy-strategists/2026_04_17_09_34_38_78fd338e-0413-490e-8876-7adcb91bf949.mp3","summary":"The Grumpy Strategists respond to Australia's defence minister, Richard Marles, discussing and releasing the 'new' 2026 Defence Strategy and investment plan. Marcus sees the spirit of Hiroo Onoda, second last Japanese Imperial Army soldier to surrender after World War Two - 29 years after the war ended in March 1974 alive in Mr Marles today. Like Hiroo, Mr Marles carries the flame of a world that has ended. In Hiroo Onoda's case it was faith in the Emperor and Imperial Japan's impending victory. In Mr Marles' case, it's in an America that remains the beacon of freedom, democracy and liberal values, source of global stability and anchor of the rules based international system. Both Onoda and Marles are romantics with a streak of obsession in their nature. Hiroo didn't get to determine his nation's defence policy, though. Then it's into the hard numbers of the new plan, including the combination of forensic accounting and clairvoyance needed to understand where the massive new headline Defence budget could have emerged from. The episode ends with mines and the curious case of Pete Hegseth accidentally channeling the spirit of Quentin Tarantino and a 1970s Japanese martial arts movie instead of God.....We're in good hands.","meta_description":"The Grumpy Strategists respond to Australia's defence minister, Richard Marles, discussing and releasing the 'new' 2026 Defence Strategy and investment pl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3640,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/episodes/the-grumpy-strategists-cover-australia-s-new-defence-plan-a-strategy-of-denial-that-the-world-has-changed/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/the-grumpy-strategists-cover-australia-s-new-defence-plan-a-strategy-of-denial-that-the-world-has-changed.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}