{"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 Gulf collective defence exercise: a war no one admits to fighting","slug":"the-gulf-collective-defence-exercise-a-war-no-one-admits-to-fighting","published_at":"2026-04-01T08:08:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/the-gulf-collective-defence-exercise-a-war-no-one-admits-to-fighting","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists/2679879","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/228146/2679879/the-grumpy-strategists/2026_04_01_08_07_17_b517d364-df1c-40de-825e-0e2ee4704b92.mp3","summary":"Marcus calls into the Grumpy Strategists' Brindabella bunker with unwelcome news on more diesel supplies. After this disappointment, the Grumpies ponder the mystery of the Gulf War - a war without belligerents. Everyone is telling their populations that they are not at war, just engaged in military operations or acts of 'collective self defence'. Here in Canberra, PM Albanese has to remember which side of his mouth he's speaking out of - the quietly supportive \"I sent a Wedgetail and I know the US military loves it\" side for Washington, or the \"Australia has no part in this unpopular war we're just helping our good friend the UAE\" side when talking to the Australian people. Then they discuss the paralysis in Australian force structure planning and the contribution that \"bipartisanship\" on defence policy is causing, right when both major parties are increasingly on the nose.","meta_description":"Marcus calls into the Grumpy Strategists' Brindabella bunker with unwelcome news on more diesel supplies. After this disappointment, the Grumpies ponder t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2361,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/episodes/the-gulf-collective-defence-exercise-a-war-no-one-admits-to-fighting/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-gulf-collective-defence-exercise-a-war-no-one-admits-to-fighting.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}