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Nov 21, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Peter Layton
In a military context, the word ‘reserve’ is usually understood as meaning some group on standby for use as field commanders decide. However, in today’s Australian Defence Force it now generally refers to individuals. This is part of a trend of at least 50 years in which the Defence Force Reserves as an organisation have become less important while reservists as individuals have become fundamental to the functioning of the Defence establishment.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
kyivindependent.com | Peter Layton
In 2022, Russia launched long-range strikes deep into Ukraine, confident that Ukraine could not retaliate in kind. By 2023, that situation changed. Ukraine received medium-range HIMARS rockets from the U.S., Storm Shadow and SCALP cruise missiles from the U.K. and France, and developed long-range attack drones of its own.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Peter Layton
AI DOOMArtificial Intelligence at WarPublished 22 August 2024The Gaza war has shown that the use of AI in tactical targeting can drive military strategy by encouraging decision-making bias. At the start of the conflict, an Israeli Defense Force AI system called Lavender apparently identified 37,000 people linked to Hamas. Its function quickly shifted from gathering long-term intelligence to rapidly identifying individual operatives to target.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Peter Layton
There’s a global arms race under way to work out how best to use artificial intelligence for military purposes. The Gaza and Ukraine wars are now accelerating this. These conflicts might inform Australia and others in the region as they prepare for a possible AI-fuelled ‘hyperwar’ closer to home, given that China envisages fighting wars using automated decision-making under the rubric of what it calls ‘intelligentization’.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
internationalaffairs.org.au | Peter Layton
There’s a defence Artificial Intelligence (AI) race underway. This effort across 25 countries ranging from the giant to the very small is detailed in a new open-access publication, The Very Long Game, on which this post draws. In the Indo-Pacific, this race is against a backdrop of escalating US/China rivalry. In this rivalry, the idea has taken deep hold that to be first with a new technology gives geo-economic and geostrategic advantages.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Peter Layton
Drones are the signature technology of the Ukraine war. A few miniature aircraft designs were used in the war’s early days, but an incredible array of drones have now evolved. There are different types, sizes and levels of sophistication. They are used for many roles including short- and long-range attack, reconnaissance, electronic disruption, communications relay and supply. Many are repurposed consumer drones, such as the low-cost Chinese DJI designs sold in electronics stores.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
econotimes.com | Peter Layton
Drones are the signature technology of the Ukraine war. A few miniature aircraft designs were used in the war’s early days, but an incredible array of drones have now evolved. There are different types, sizes and levels of sophistication. They are used for many roles including short- and long-range attack, reconnaissance, electronic disruption, communications relay and supply.
Many are repurposed consumer drones, such as the low-cost Chinese DJI designs sold in electronics stores.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Peter Layton
By Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University
Drones are the signature technology of the Ukraine war. A few miniature aircraft designs were used in the war’s early days, but an incredible array of drones have now evolved. There are different types, sizes and levels of sophistication.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Peter Layton
Drones are the signature technology of the Ukraine war. A few miniature aircraft designs were used in the war’s early days, but an incredible array of drones have now evolved. There are different types, sizes and levels of sophistication. They are used for many roles including short- and long-range attack, reconnaissance, electronic disruption, communications relay and supply. Many are repurposed consumer drones, such as the low-cost Chinese DJI designs sold in electronics stores.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
thetimes.com.au | Crystalbrook Byron |Peter Layton
Written by Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University Drones are the signature technology of the Ukraine war. A few miniature aircraft designs were used in the war’s early days[1], but an incredible array[2] of drones have now evolved. There are different types, sizes and levels of sophistication. They are used for many roles including short- and long-range attack, reconnaissance, electronic disruption, communications relay and supply.
