Robbin F. Laird (born 1946) is a military and security analyst.

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He has taught at Columbia University, Queens College, Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. He worked with The Center for Defense Analysis and the Institute for Defense Analysis. He is a member of the Board of Contributors of AOL Defense and writes for The Diplomat.^[1] He is the director of the ICSA, LLC since 2000 and co-founder of the website Second Line of Defense, since 2010 and of Defense.info since 2018.^[2] He is the editor of two defense websites, Second Line of Defense and Defense Information. He became a fellow of The Williams Foundation, Canberra, Australia in 2018.

• National Science Foundation
• US Institute of Peace
• Tinker Foundation
• Fellow, The Williams Foundation, Canberra Australia

• The Scientific-Technological Revolution and Soviet Foreign Policy: Pergamon Policy Studies on International Politics, 1982, with Erik P. Hoffmann
• Politics of Economic Modernization in the Soviet Union, 1982, with Erik P. Hoffman
• Soviet Union and Strategic Arms, 1985, with Dale R. Herspring
• Technocratic Socialism: The Soviet Union in the Advanced Industrial Era, 1985, with Erik P. Hoffman
• Soviet Union, the West and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1986
• French Security Policy, 1986
• Strangers and Friends: The Franco-German Security Relationship, 1989
• West European Arms Control Policy, 1989
• USSR and the Western Alliance, 1989, with Susan Clark
• The Future of Deterrence: NATO Nuclear Forces Aft Inf, 1989
• The Soviets, Germany, and the New Europe, 1991
• Soviet Foreign Policy: Classic and Contemporary, 1991, with Frederick J. Fleron and Erik P. Hoffmann
• Classic Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy: From Lenin to Brezhnev, 1991, with Erik P. Hoffmann and Frederic J. Fleron
• The Revolution in Military Affairs: Allied Perspectives, 2012, with Holger H Mey
• Three Dimensional Warriors: Second Edition, 2013
• Rebuilding American Military Power in the Pacific: A 21st-Century Strategy, 2013, with Edward Timperlake
• The F-35 and 21st Century Defence: Shaping a Way Ahead, 2016
• France, The Soviet Union, And The Nuclear Weapons Issue, 2019
• The Return of Direct Defense in Europe:Meeting the 21st Century Authoritarian Challenge, 2020, with Murielle Delaporte
• Joint by Design: The Evolution of Australian Defence Strategy, 2020
• Training for the High End Fight: The Strategic Shift of the 2020s, 2021
• The USSR and the Western Alliance, re-issue 2021, with Susan Clark
• 2020: A Pivotal Year?: Navigating Strategic Change at a Time of COVID-19 Disruption, 2021
• The U.S. Marine Corps Transformation Path: Preparing for the High-End Fight, 2022
• Defense XXI: Shaping a Way Ahead for the United States and Its Allies, 2022

• Allies of World War II
• Alexander Bovin
• Robert C. Tucker
• Rivista Italiana Difesa
• World Federation of Democratic Youth