Singapore’s careful F-35 fighter aircraft purchase
Friday
29th March
2019
PETER LAYTON | Singapore has finally decided to acquire four F-35 aircraft with options for eight more, initially …
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America’s air supremacy Is fading fast
Friday
11th March
2016
PETER LAYTON | American air supremacy is in a bear market of long-term decline with no end in sight. The…
Prototype warfare in the fourth industrial age
Thursday
4th April
2019
PETER LAYTON | A new industrial process is rapidly emerging. This fourth industrial revolution (4IR) based…
Scenarios for the war in Ukraine
Thursday
24th March
2022
PETER LAYTON | Russia’s war has stalled. There are small advances, but at high cost. Russian…
Time and troops in finite supply for Russia’s army in Ukraine
Thursday
31st March
2022
PETER LAYTON | To everyone’s surprise, after a month’s hard fighting in Ukraine, the Russian army is now …
Japan’s very busy fighter force
Monday
8th April
2019
PETER LAYTON | By international standards, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force is very busy. It scrambles fighters daily to intercept…
A balancing act: Humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and the ADF
Thursday
7th April
2022
PETER LAYTON AND PETER LEAHY | The Australian Defence Force has a long and proud history of delivering…
In Putin’s war, everybody loses
Thursday
21st April
2022
PETER LAYTON | The war in Ukraine is entering its ninth week. Looking back, in the first three weeks,…
Trampling the grass: China-US leadership competition
Monday
26th November
2018
PETER LAYTON | As the APEC Summit showed, China-US competition will progressively revise the international system. Middle powers and smaller…
US-China competition is all about us
Monday
10th December
2018
PETER LAYTON | We are not entering a new Cold War, despite both Chinese President Xi and US …