North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are not unstoppable
Wednesday
6th September
2017
PETER LAYTON | North Korea has the initiative. It is flying rockets over Japan, it claims to have mounted…
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Limiting China’s future strategic predominance
Tuesday
12th September
2017
PETER LAYTON | Mr Peter Varghese AO, recently retired Department of Foreign Affairs head, has laid out his vision…
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…
How to fix America’s North Korea strategic failures
Wednesday
27th September
2017
PETER LAYTON | North Korea has the initiative. It is now firing rockets over the Japanese home islands and…
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…
Australia spent billions on jet fighters off the plan. Now, we’re having trouble even flying them
Thursday
10th March
2022
PETER LAYTON | There’s a problem with Australia’s brand new fighter jet—it’s just not that reliable. As a…
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…
On a Trumpian track for the next Middle East war
Monday
23rd October
2017
PETER LAYTON | In some respects, US President Donald Trump and the Iranian theocratic regime deserve each other. Neither respect…