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…
Category Archive: Commentary
A disruptive innovation, future-focussed Australian strategic studies
Tuesday
18th January
2022
PETER LAYTON | Australian strategic studies cannot keep up with current rates of geostrategic change. Focussing on different analysis…
Australia–Japan defence cooperation in the grey zone
Tuesday
25th January
2022
PETER LAYTON | Over the last several years, the relationship with China has become increasingly awkward for both Australia…
Commercial drones: Privatising air power
Thursday
28th September
2017
PETER LAYTON | In irregular wars, the state has traditionally had a monopoly on the use of air power. This…
Living with a feared China and Russian-built chaos
Monday
31st January
2022
PETER LAYTON | To Western eyes, China’s wolf-warrior foreign affairs policy and Russia’s extravagant…
China’s grey zone tactics amount to far more than just laser games
Tuesday
1st March
2022
PETER LAYTON | Just after lunchtime Thursday 17 February, China for the first time undertook grey zone actions in…
General Valery Gerasimov’s great Ukrainian disaster
Tuesday
15th March
2022
PETER LAYTON | How did we end up here? We all thought Putin’s modernized Russian army was ten feet…
Other peoples’ air power: Air superiority without fast jets
Tuesday
24th October
2017
PETER LAYTON | Say ‘air superiority’ and people instinctively think of highly manoeuvrable aircraft, silk-scarfed fighter pilots, the Battle…
Reading between the lines of North Korea’s letter
Wednesday
25th October
2017
PETER LAYTON | The Foreign Affairs Committee of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly has been busy sending open letters to…
Other peoples’ air power: Air power with Chinese characteristics
Friday
1st December
2017
PETER LAYTON | Peter Layton’s series on other peoples’ air power has included an examination of Islamic State’s use…