America’s new alliance management
Wednesday
15th March
2017
PETER LAYTON | The Trump administration has embraced a new, reductionist approach to managing its alliances. James Mattis, on his…
Category Archive: Commentary
The hard road ahead for Biden’s unity call
Friday
29th January
2021
PETER LAYTON | Joe Biden has commenced his presidency with a strident call to the nation to unify and…
Winning the AI-enabled war-at-sea
Friday
23rd April
2021
PETER LAYTON | Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is suddenly important to military forces. Not yet an arms race, today’s…
Unprecedented is not a reason to be unprepared
Tuesday
11th May
2021
With the Oceania region ranked as the greatest disaster risk area worldwide, Peter Layton says countries need to improve their…
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…
Australia’s defence strategy: Evaluating alternatives for a contested Asia
Monday
10th July
2017
PETER LAYTON | Many books on Australian defence simply repeat old beliefs. This valuable new work does not, instead breaking…
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…
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 …
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…
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…