Helping AUKUS last the distance
Thursday
23rd March
2023
PETER LAYTON | While defence matters usually receive limited meaningful public debate in Australia, the government will need to…
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AUKUS sets sail in the Indo-Pacific
Tuesday
9th May
2023
PETER LAYTON | Australia’s acquisition of a replacement for its Collins class conventional submarine fleet is proving remarkably complicated.
Countering China’s grey zone strategy
Monday
11th October
2021
PETER LAYTON | China’s grey zone activities grind remorseless on but in so doing are creating an…
Storm warning: Chinese grey zone futures inbound
Monday
25th October
2021
PETER LAYTON | As competition with China deepens, the nation’s use of gray zone techniques is becoming of increasing…
Australian Defence’s Forgotten Indian Ocean Territories
Thursday
29th June
2023
PETER LAYTON | ‘Location, location, location’ is the key to understanding Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories (IOT). Christmas Island is…
What’s behind Australia’s $1 billion defence deal with Germany?
Thursday
13th July
2023
PETER LAYTON | Early last year, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a major historical turning…
A Queensland defence and security perspective
Friday
21st July
2023
PETER LAYTON | Australia has no international land borders but only just. Queensland’s Saibai Island is only…
Best Biden bide his time on China
Tuesday
2nd February
2021
Democracies usually get out of a pickle by changing their government and starting afresh. In 2021 the Biden Administration will…
Designing an Australian grand strategy for China
Tuesday
30th June
2020
A grand strategy involves developing and applying national power to improve the relationship our nation has with another. This whole-of-nation…
Belt and Road means big data and facial recognition too
Wednesday
24th June
2020
China’s digital technologies for societal control are finding a place in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which aims to…