Peter Layton (Dr)

Peter Layton

Dr

Dr Peter Layton is a Visiting Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, an Associate Fellow Royal United Services Institute (London) and a Fellow of the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group. He has extensive defence experience including flying fast jets and maritime patrol, force development, major equipment projects and as a defense attaché. For his work at the Pentagon on force structure matters, he was awarded the US Secretary of Defense’s Exceptional Public Service Medal.

Peter has a doctorate from the University of New South Wales on grand strategy and has taught it at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, Washington DC. He contributes regularly to the public policy debate on defence and foreign affairs issues, 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://griffith.academia.edu/peterlayton