Robbin Laird is a journalist at Breaking Media, Inc. He specializes in security and law enforcement, public security, and aviation and aerospace, with a particular focus on drone technology and artificial intelligence. Laird's insights and expertise have been featured in prominent outlets such as RealClearDefense, SLDinfo.com, American Thinker, Defence Connect, Defense.info, and the Lexington Institute.
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By: Robbin Laird
Europe’s defense industry is being remade by a war that is no longer purely European. What began in February 2022 as a continental crisis has become a genuinely cross-regional industrial event, in which Asian states, as suppliers, as combatants by proxy, and as strategic competitors, have become as consequential to the shape of European rearmament […]
By: Robbin Laird
A recent Defense & Aerospace Report Land Warfare podcast, in which Vago Muradian sat down with Brookings’ Michael O’Hanlon to discuss the lessons of the Ukraine and Iran wars, offers a useful occasion to test a framework I have been developing across several books and articles: the shift from a crisis-management force structured around episodic, […]
By: Robert Dougherty, Robbin Laird
Opinion: There is a fashionable argument circulating in Canberra's strategic policy circles that goes roughly like this: the United States, under
By Robbin Laird On June 16, 2026, under a covered pavilion at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the Marine Corps activated Marine Unmanned Maintenance Squadron 14 — MUMS-14 — as a subordinate command of Marine Aircraft Group 14, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey F. Carben took command; Sergeant Major Tavaris J. Douglas […]
Naval power is often judged by the capabilities of the platforms at the tip of the spear, such as surface vessels, submarines and combat aircraft. Those assets enable the United States to project power in the maritime domain, but to bring their full capabilities to bear requires readiness — a key priority for Pentagon leadership. […]
By: Robbin Laird
Five years into AUKUS, the Australian debate remains stubbornly fixated on a single question: will the submarines arrive, and when? John Blaxland’s submission to the AUKUS Public Inquiry, Undersea Power: A Framework for Evaluating AUKUS, argues that this question, while legitimate, has trapped the debate in the wrong frame. Submarines are not the strategic object. […]
By: Robbin Laird
By Robbin Laird In August 2026, off Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Virginia, a Navy-industry team quietly solved a problem that has constrained every discussion of unmanned maritime systems I have written about for the past several years: how do you keep an autonomous vessel on station without a person ever touching it? According […]
By: Robbin Laird
An in-depth discussion with the service's chief of Naval Air Training Command. By Robbin Laird on September 04, 2026 11:47 am Share Options Share a link to this article
By: Robbin Laird
Robbin Laird’s account of how Ukraine and Asia’s engagement are rewiring European defense industry identifies something potentially larger than the European rearmament story itself. Read carefully, what he describes is not simply Europe spending more money faster, or Europe absorbing a wave of startups into its established primes. It is the early, uneven emergence of […]
By: Robbin Laird
In November of 1943, the Liberty Ship SS John P. Gaines broke in two and sank, resulting in the loss of 10 of her crew. The board of investigation found that the grade of steel used in welded construction embrittled in the cold waters of the Aleutian Islands. Today, the defense industrial base (DIB) is […]
