Keeping the Australian Defence Force in the climate-change fight
PETER LAYTON | A month on from my earlier post on bringing the Australian Defence Force into the global warming fight, a… Read More
Peter Layton
Bringing the defence force into Australia’s climate-change fight
PETER LAYTON | It’s time to structure the Australian Defence Force for this long, hot century. That doesn’t mean making it better suited to… Read More
Australia’s F-35s: Lessons from a problematic purchase
PETER LAYTON | It suddenly seems the Air Force needs major recapitalisation, just as its force structure is being renewed at considerable… Read More
Undeclared air strikes: Between war and peace
PETER LAYTON | Airpower has long been a favoured instrument in Middle Eastern wars, and none more so than by Israel. The country has… Read More
Time to rethink Australia’s strategic milling over China
PETER LAYTON | Australia’s strategic, economic and political apprehension about the rising power of China in the Indo-Pacific has dominated recent national debate – with… Read More
Social mobilisation in a contested environment
PETER LAYTON | As geostrategic circumstances darken, there’s new interest in military mobilisation. For Australia, that involves moving the Australian Defence Force beyond its… Read More
The trouble in the air on a tense Tuesday in Northeast Asia
PETER LAYTON | The ruckus after South Korea fired warning shots at a nosy Russian spy plane marks a significant rise in tensions. Read More
Building an Australian grand strategy
PETER LAYTON | Grand strategy is rarely mentioned in Australian defence debates. That’s unfortunate as it’s designed for use in solving complex problems when… Read More
Beyond ‘balancing’: alternative US grand strategies for dealing with China and Russia
PETER LAYTON | It’s time to start paying attention. The US–China spat is doubling down. The hardline speeches given by Chinese Defence… Read More
Mobilisation in the information technology era
PETER LAYTON | Artificial intelligence, big data, virtual reality, robotics, cloud computing. The information technology (IT) revolution rolls on, progressively changing the world. Read More
