Peter Layton is a Visiting Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and a RUSI Associate Fellow. He has extensive aviation and defense 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. He has a doctorate from the University of New South Wales on grand strategy and has taught on the topic at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, US National Defense University. For his academic studies, he was awarded a Fellowship to the European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy. His research interests include grand strategy, national security policies particularly relating to middle powers, defense force structure concepts and the impacts of emerging technology. He contributes regularly to the public policy debate on defense and foreign affairs issues and is the author of the book Grand Strategy. He is co-authoring a new book, Warfare in the Robotic Age.