Keeping the Australian Defence Force in the climate-change fight
Friday
31st January
2020
PETER LAYTON | A month on from my earlier post on bringing the Australian Defence Force into…
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Bringing the defence force into Australia’s climate-change fight
Thursday
12th December
2019
PETER LAYTON | It’s time to structure the Australian Defence Force for this long, hot century. That doesn’t mean…
Australia’s F-35s: Lessons from a problematic purchase
Monday
18th November
2019
PETER LAYTON | It suddenly seems the Air Force needs major recapitalisation, just as its…
Undeclared air strikes: Between war and peace
Wednesday
2nd October
2019
PETER LAYTON | Airpower has long been a favoured instrument in Middle Eastern wars, and none more so than…
Time to rethink Australia’s strategic milling over China
Tuesday
24th September
2019
PETER LAYTON | Australia’s strategic, economic and political apprehension about the rising power of China in the Indo-Pacific has…
Social mobilisation in a contested environment
Tuesday
6th August
2019
PETER LAYTON | As geostrategic circumstances darken, there’s new interest in military mobilisation. For Australia, that involves moving the…
The trouble in the air on a tense Tuesday in Northeast Asia
Wednesday
31st July
2019
PETER LAYTON | The ruckus after South Korea fired warning shots at a nosy Russian spy plane marks a…
Building an Australian grand strategy
Wednesday
17th July
2019
PETER LAYTON | Grand strategy is rarely mentioned in Australian defence debates. That’s unfortunate as it’s designed for use…
Beyond ‘balancing’: alternative US grand strategies for dealing with China and Russia
Thursday
27th June
2019
PETER LAYTON | It’s time to start paying attention. The US–China spat is doubling down. The hardline speeches given by…
Mobilisation in the information technology era
Wednesday
12th June
2019
PETER LAYTON | Artificial intelligence, big data, virtual reality, robotics, cloud computing. The information technology (IT) revolution rolls…