Australia’s nuclear submarine surprise
Wednesday
22nd December
2021
PETER LAYTON | In September 2021, Australia’s Prime Minster startled almost everyone by declaring the replacement submarine for the…
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Converging ways of war: Russian, China and America
Monday
20th December
2021
PETER LAYTON | Thinking about major war is back in fashion as forever wars shuffle off and near-peer conflicts…
Only a truly national security strategy can forestall disaster
Monday
6th December
2021
PETER LAYTON | There is much talk of war drums beating, China battles and military deployments…
Storm warning: Chinese grey zone futures inbound
Monday
25th October
2021
PETER LAYTON | As competition with China deepens, the nation’s use of gray zone techniques is becoming of increasing…
Countering China’s grey zone strategy
Monday
11th October
2021
PETER LAYTON | China’s grey zone activities grind remorseless on but in so doing are creating an…
Chinese warplanes overhead Taiwan (or maybe not)
Friday
8th October
2021
PETER LAYTON | China’s PLA Air Force’s (PLAAF) latest flights into the Taiwanese Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) have …
Australia’s wartime seaborne trade: Insights from before
Tuesday
21st September
2021
PETER LAYTON | The cargo, not the ships, should guide Australia’s responses to potential threats against seaborne trade and…
Responding to China’s unending grey-zone prodding
Thursday
12th August
2021
PETER LAYTON | The best way to counter China’s grey-zone activities may be a measured…
Preparing Australia to respond to disasters—at home and abroad
Friday
6th August
2021
PETER LAYTON | The COVID pandemic relentlessly rolls on but prescribed burns have now also begun across…
Bringing the grey zone into focus
Friday
23rd July
2021
PETER LAYTON | Australia’s 2020 Defence Strategic Update was, by the standards of such publications, a hard-hitting…