Remote swarms create command and data bottlenecks

A worldwide uncrewed swarm would need enormous command bandwidth and a large staff to coordinate it. A control bunker in Britain would become a concentrated target whose loss could cripple conventional naval power. Low-orbit satellite links also remain vulnerable in a major war. One alternative proposal would use retired ballistic-missile submarines as submerged command posts. Its proposed laser link would have to carry the required data through water and air without diffraction or loss, performance described here as not yet developed. The objection concerns that promised communications capability. Relocating crews would therefore introduce new dependencies in the command infrastructure.