The Bunker: Iranian Saber-Rattling
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The Bunker
A cheat sheet for what you need to know about the Department of Defense, how we’re waging our wars, and how the Pentagon spends our taxpayer dollars. The Bunker is both pro-troop and pro-taxpayer.
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Mark Thompson
The Bunker: Dwindling Democracy?
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The Bunker: Provocative Misbehaviors
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The Bunker: A Different Chinese Abacus
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The Bunker: More Weapons, More Nukes, Less Sleep
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The Bunker: Getting ‘em in, through, and out
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The Bunker: 3-D disasters
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The Bunker: Fumbling Funding, Foes, and the Front Office
This week in The Bunker: for today’s U.S. military, a perfect storm of fortune, fools, and freelancing leads to disturbing questions about funding, foes, and who’s in the front office; and more.
The Bunker: A Botched Probe Into a Botched War’s Ending
This week in The Bunker: The Pentagon finally decides to interview U.S. troops wounded in the deadly 2021 blast that killed 13 comrades as the U.S. military fled Afghanistan; and more.
The Bunker: Threat Du Jour
This week in The Bunker: The Pentagon’s perpetual hunt for a threat grows weary; F-35 engages in its first dog fight; Navy secretary calls a Red State senator a Red ally; and more.
The Bunker: Ship Overboard!
The Bunker is back, tanned, rested, and, too often like the U.S. military, unsteady. Let’s skim some national-security cream that has curdled while we were away: early Navy retirement; crash parallels; hearing loss; and more.
The Bunker: Subcontracting War
This week in The Bunker: battlefield bargain; time for Europe to defend itself; V-22 woes; and more. Housekeeping note: with apologies to Barbara Tuchman, The Bunker’s Guns of August will go silent next month. We’ll be back September 6.
