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Air Warfare

November 12, 2025

Making Air Forces Resilient, Scalable and Large

Today’s air forces are designed around highly sophisticated, technically impressive combat aircraft and this is their Achillies heel. Such aircraft...

Peter Layton • RealClearDefense

Air Warfare

June 19, 2025

Heterogeneous Air Power Is Here

Current conflicts have overturned how air power is applied. Air forces should no longer be built solely around crewed aircraft.

Peter Layton • The Strategist (ASPI)

Air Warfare

January 20, 2025

The Arrival of Heterogeneous Airpower

The U. S.

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Philippines South China Sea

Indo-Pacific/Asia

March 20, 2024

China's Grey-Zone Provocations: Time To Reciprocate

Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah May 4 is hit by Chinese coast guard water canon blast causing injuries to multiple crew members as they tried to...

Peter Layton • the interpreter
Israel Palestinians

Middle East

January 26, 2024

Israel's Gaza War Grinds On

The Western world’s preeminent strategist, Carl von Clausewitz, famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means. For him wars...

Peter Layton • RealClearDefense
Israel Palestinians Controlling Gaza Explainer

Military Strategy

November 13, 2023

Two Strategies Spiralling Downwards in Gaza

The Gaza War is now well into its second month with fighting still intense . The Hamas-run Health ministry in Gaza claims that more than 11,000 people...

Peter Layton • RealClearDefense
Philippines South China Sea

China

November 9, 2023

As the World Looks Elsewhere, China Stirs Trouble in the South China Sea

The Chinese Communist Party-controlled Global Times is already forecasting “more serious collisions. ” China is again making mischief in the South...

Peter Layton • the interpreter

Information Warfare

September 19, 2023

Attacking Hostile Battle Networks

Today digital technology pervades the world’s militaries. Their lifeblood is now digitised information circulating through their force structures and...

Peter Layton • RealClearDefense

Cyber Warfare

February 6, 2023

Chinese Grey Zone Spy Balloons Over the American Heartland

A high altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont. , on Wednesday, Feb.

Peter Layton • the interpreter

Russo-Ukraine War

March 14, 2022

General Valery Gerasimov's Great Ukrainian Disaster

How did we end up here? We all thought Putin's modernized Russian army was ten feet tall and led by a General who, in military thinking circles, is a...

Peter Layton • RealClearDefense

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