Warfare in the robotics age
Wednesday
27th March
2024
ASH ROSSITER AND PETER LAYTON | Introducing “Warfare in the Robotics Age“—exploring the future of conflict The…
Peter Layton
Duelling battle networks: The new equilibrium
Thursday
21st September
2023
PETER LAYTON | With digital technology omnipresent, future major wars will most likely pivot around duelling battle networks. These complicated…
Danger Will Robinson: Warfighting robots fast approaching
Monday
11th September
2023
PETER LAYTON | "Mass is the new black"... In his latest piece, Peter Layton warns that cheap drones built in the…
US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years
Friday
1st September
2023
PETER LAYTON | The United States military plans to start using thousands of autonomous weapons systems in the next…
‘Every flight is a learning event’: Why the V-22 Osprey aircraft won’t be grounded despite dozens of crashes and 54 fatalities
Thursday
31st August
2023
PETER LAYTON | At the weekend a V-22 Osprey aircraft crashed on Melville Island north of Darwin. Of the 23…
A Queensland defence and security perspective
Friday
21st July
2023
PETER LAYTON | Australia has no international land borders but only just. Queensland’s Saibai Island is only…
What’s behind Australia’s $1 billion defence deal with Germany?
Thursday
13th July
2023
PETER LAYTON | Early last year, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a major historical turning…
Australian Defence’s Forgotten Indian Ocean Territories
Thursday
29th June
2023
PETER LAYTON | ‘Location, location, location’ is the key to understanding Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories (IOT). Christmas Island is…
AUKUS sets sail in the Indo-Pacific
Tuesday
9th May
2023
PETER LAYTON | Australia’s acquisition of a replacement for its Collins class conventional submarine fleet is proving remarkably complicated.
Helping AUKUS last the distance
Thursday
23rd March
2023
PETER LAYTON | While defence matters usually receive limited meaningful public debate in Australia, the government will need to…