Speartooth Comes to America: What the C2 Robotics LUUV Sale Tells Us About the Future of Undersea Mass

05/02/2026 By Robbin Laird In August 2025, the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport, issued a sole-source solicitation for three C2 Robotics "Speartooth" Large Uncrewed Underwater Vessels, 11-metre variant. The justification was blunt: Speartooth was the only autonomous underwater vehicle that met Navy design, size, and mission requirements for long-range, stealthy undersea delivery of ordnance and other kinetic effects. The… Read more »

From Prototypes to Operational Realities: Australia’s Maritime Autonomous Systems Unit and the Tasks That Cannot Wait

05/01/2026 By Robbin Laird Australia’s Maritime Autonomous Systems Unit, the MASU, stands at an inflection point. The period of experimentation and prototype evaluation that has defined the past several years of Australian engagement with unmanned maritime systems must now give way to something harder to achieve and more consequential: operational delivery. The pressure is not abstract. Australia faces a significant hull… Read more »

The Interconnected Deals No One Is Calling a New World Order

04/30/2026 By: Alexandra Brooks On May 13, 2025, President Donald Trump stood before Saudi ministers, Gulf investors, and technology executives at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh and delivered what may be remembered as one of the defining foreign policy speeches of the decade. The event was written off as another investment forum; the speech was something else entirely.… Read more »

Britain “Underprepared and Underinsured”: Lord Robertson’s Warning and What It Actually Means

04/29/2026 [caption id="attachment_149311" align="alignnone" width="962"] Screenshot[/caption] When a former NATO secretary general warns that Britain is “underprepared, underinsured, under attack” and “not safe,” it is more than a routine shot in the Westminster blame game. Lord George Robertson’s recent intervention goes to the heart of the United Kingdom’s war‑fighting credibility in an era of state‑on‑state confrontation. His message is stark: the… Read more »

The Brutal Math of Western Survival: Forces in Motion and the Civilizational Reckoning of Our Time

04/28/2026 By Robin Laird Begin with a simple arithmetic problem. A kamikaze drone costs roughly $5,000 to manufacture. A Patriot interceptor missile costs $4 million. An adversary launching a swarm of 200 cheap propeller-driven drones, each priced at $20,000, presents a defender using Patriot interceptors with a bill of $800 million to neutralize an attack that cost the aggressor $4 million.… Read more »

The Luzon Economic Corridor and Pax Silica: Reshaping Indo-Pacific Supply Chains Through U.S.-Philippines-Japan Collaboration

04/27/2026 [caption id="attachment_149311" align="alignnone" width="962"] Screenshot[/caption] The Trump administration has moved aggressively to build out America's strategic and economic partnership with the Philippines. At the center of this effort are two interlocking frameworks: the Luzon Economic Corridor and the Pax Silica initiative. Together, they represent a serious attempt to rewire critical technology supply chains, repositioning the Philippines as a key node… Read more »