A grand strategy Plan A for Australia?
PETER LAYTON | Worry abounds. There are calls for radically new defence policies, a defence Plan B, a doubling of… Read More
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Realigning the Australian Army
PETER LAYTON | The Australian Army is spending up big, announcing a $5.2bn contract for more than 200 Boxers (armoured reconnaissance vehicles from … Read More
“The tenth man” — War’s changing nature in an AI world
PETER LAYTON | There’s a debate underway about the nature of war. Some say it’s immutable, others say hogwash; ironically both sides quote… Read More
Our new model robot armies
PETER LAYTON | Robotic technologies seem set to disrupt warfare in at least two big ways: firstly, in improving productivity… Read More
To engage China, or balance it? Lessons from a failed grand strategic exercise
PETER LAYTON | How should a great power manage a rival with an authoritarian government, a state-directed capitalist economy, strong mercantilist tendencies and a “leader… Read More
The rise of armed unmanned aircraft
PETER LAYTON | Editorial note: In the first of a two-part article, Dr Peter Layton explores the evolution of the armed unmanned aircraft from its… Read More
Mai Tai diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
PETER LAYTON | It’s Mai Tai time again for many of the world’s navies and some air forces. The month-long, biennial Rim… Read More
Rethinking grand strategy
PETER LAYTON | Grand strategy may seem an irrelevant idea but it’s not. As Colin Gray declares “all strategy is grand strategy.” Without a grand… Read More
Using a Clausewitzian Dictum to rethink achieving victory
PETER LAYTON | “War is thus an act of force to compel the enemy to do our will.” —Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Book… Read More
Australia’s Chinese ballistic missile problem
PETER LAYTON | Late last year in Australia, there was sudden interest shown in ballistic missile defence (BMD). Although the driver was North… Read More
