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…
Category Archive: Commentary
India’s fickle geostrategic framework
Monday
31st October
2022
PETER LAYTON | In October 2022, India abstained from voting in a UN Security Council draft resolution against Russia’s annexation…
Australia’s quest for an ‘impactful projection’ defence force
Friday
25th November
2022
PETER LAYTON | Australia’s latest Defence Strategic Review must effectively respond to a rapidly changing…
Australia’s new regional context: Pacific island futures and air power possibilities
Thursday
19th March
2020
PETER LAYTON | In the Australian strategic consciousness the Pacific islands looms very large. There is more than two…
Part 1 | Indian Ocean air power: An ocean of air forces
Wednesday
11th March
2020
PETER LAYTON | The Indian Ocean has become an area of geostrategic competition. As Australia is an Indian Ocean…
Part 3 | Indian Ocean Air Power: Consequences for Australia
Tuesday
31st March
2020
Peter Layton turns his attention to the importance of Australian air power in the region. Though the Royal Australian Air…
Discontinued: America’s continuous bomber presence
Monday
11th May
2020
The symbolism of the Chinese sending their brand-new aircraft carrier to exercise in the South China Sea while the US…
Part 2 | Indian Ocean Air Power: Extra Regional Air Forces
Sunday
22nd March
2020
PETER LAYTON | Peter Layton turns his attention to the extra-regional players: The United States, United Kingdom, and…
The Linebacker II air campaign anniversary and the Ukraine war
Thursday
12th January
2023
PETER LAYTON | December marked 50 years since the ‘maximum effort’ Operation Linebacker II air campaign that forced the…
Australia’s return to must-win wars
Friday
3rd February
2023
PETER LAYTON | It’s been a long time since Australia fought to win a war. Famed military historian David…