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,…
Peter Layton
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fifth-generation warfare: An evolving technical dimension of war
Friday
18th August
2017
PETER LAYTON | For the Australian Defence Force’s Army, Navy and Air Force Chiefs, the future is ‘fifth generation.’ That being so,…
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…
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…