The South China Sea’s worsening strategic dilemmas
Tuesday
6th December
2016
PETER LAYTON | The world has moved on but most South China Sea strategies are stuck in the past. For…
China
China is creeping south and it is time we acted
Thursday
8th December
2016
PETER LAYTON | In the South China Sea dispute, Australia remains trapped in the past. Since Australia developed its strategy,…
Trump’s Twitter diplomacy troubles US–China relations
Monday
30th January
2017
PETER LAYTON | As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approached, tensions in the South China Sea have continued to evolve. In…
Australian airpower’s tough South China Sea challenge
Monday
6th March
2017
PETER LAYTON | The RAAF is in the midst of a large-scale replacement program but the strategic goalposts have just…
Advancing China’s South China Sea dominance
Wednesday
29th March
2017
PETER LAYTON | In a recent PLA Navy (PLAN) journal article, South Sea Fleet officers declared that China has achieved…
Bringing the grey zone into focus
Friday
23rd July
2021
PETER LAYTON | Australia’s 2020 Defence Strategic Update was, by the standards of such publications, a hard-hitting…
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 …
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…
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…