Rethinking grand strategy
Friday
22nd June
2018
PETER LAYTON | Grand strategy may seem an irrelevant idea but it’s not. As Colin Gray declares “all strategy is…
Category Archive: Region | China and Northeast Asia
Mai Tai diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
Thursday
5th July
2018
PETER LAYTON | It’s Mai Tai time again for many of the world’s navies and some air forces. The month-long, …
An alternative to the rules-based order?
Tuesday
17th April
2018
PETER LAYTON | There’s a fundamental problem in Australia’s relationship with China: China’s growth advances prosperity but menaces security. If the…
To engage China, or balance it? Lessons from a failed grand strategic exercise
Monday
23rd July
2018
PETER LAYTON | How should a great power manage a rival with an authoritarian government, a state-directed capitalist economy, strong…
Realigning the Australian Army
Monday
15th October
2018
PETER LAYTON | The Australian Army is spending up big, announcing a $5.2bn contract for more than 200 Boxers (armoured…
America’s air supremacy Is fading fast
Friday
11th March
2016
PETER LAYTON | American air supremacy is in a bear market of long-term decline with no end in sight. The…
Japan’s very busy fighter force
Monday
8th April
2019
PETER LAYTON | By international standards, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force is very busy. It scrambles fighters daily to intercept…
Trampling the grass: China-US leadership competition
Monday
26th November
2018
PETER LAYTON | As the APEC Summit showed, China-US competition will progressively revise the international system. Middle powers and smaller…
US-China competition is all about us
Monday
10th December
2018
PETER LAYTON | We are not entering a new Cold War, despite both Chinese President Xi and US …
China’s grey-zone activities: Concepts and possible responses
Tuesday
7th June
2022
PETER LAYTON | In recent years a new term has thrust itself into the military lexicon. ‘Grey-zone’ has become…