The Bunker

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.

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 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.

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.

This week in The Bunker: lawmakers pass a defense bill crammed with partisan hand grenades; nearly 40% of the Navy’s attack sub fleet is out of commission; Pentagon bureaucracy swells with yet another new office; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The All-Volunteer Force is showing its age in a changing nation, and it’s not going to be sufficient, despite the Pentagon’s latest recruiting bonuses and baubles, if a major war breaks out; and more.

This week in The Bunker: last week, The Bunker dove into how and why the Pentagon can’t keep track of its money. This week, we’ll focus on why it says it needs more of it. We’ll let you draw your own conclusions. And more!

This week in The Bunker: keeping track of the nearly $1 trillion the Defense Department gets from U.S. taxpayers every year has never been as high as it should be on the Pentagon’s priority list, and more.

This week in The Bunker: as the V-22 tiltrotor assembly line comes to an end, why foreign sales designed to lower its cost never took off; Republican retro-Braggadocio; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Grim Fairy Tales all around as weapons costs rise and delays persist; U.S. military service is the most common trait among mass terror attack planners; China moves next door; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Ukraine reveals our primed-for-war weapons ain’t; the hole in the debt-ceiling pact big enough to fly a B-52 through; the press catches up with The Bunker; and more.

This week in The Bunker: a peek into three vexing issues embedded in the Pentagon’s DNA that contribute to weapons that promise too much, cost too much, and take too long to deliver. And more…