Dr Peter Layton is a Visiting Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University; a Royal United Services Institute (UK) Associate Fellow; and a Fellow of the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group. A retired RAAF Group Captain, he has extensive aviation and defence experience including flying fast jets and maritime patrol, force development, major equipment projects and as a defence attaché. For his work at the Pentagon on the Quadrennial Defense Review, he was awarded the US Secretary of Defense’s Exceptional Public Service Medal.
Dr Layton has a PhD (International Relations) from UNSW on grand strategy and has lectured on the topic at the Eisenhower School, National Defense University (Washington); the Australian War College (Canberra); Royal College of Defence Studies (London); the US USAF National Nuclear Strategy and Global Security Workshop and several other universities. He completed a Fellowship at the European University Institute, Italy.
Dr Layton is widely published in Australia and internationally.
His research interests include grand strategy, national security policies particularly relating to middle powers, defence force structure concepts and the impacts of emerging technology.
He contributes regularly to the public policy debate on defence and foreign affairs issues.
He is the author of the book Grand Strategy and co-author of Warfare in the Robotic Age.
His posts, articles and papers may be read at https://peterlayton.academia.edu/research
