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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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The Bunker: Peculiar Pentagon Shortages

This week in The Bunker: shortages of generals, transparency, and golf courses; a surplus of predictions on China’s threatened invasion of Taiwan; renaming Army posts; and more

The Bunker: Powerless F-35s

This week in The Bunker: How the Pentagon and Pratt & Whitney porked taxpayers; why the Army ended up with $1.1 million desktop printers; DOD empties its acronym depot in the hunt for UFOs; The Bunker’s off the next two weeks.

The Bunker: Congress as the Pentagon’s Doughboy

This week in The Bunker: A first-ever report details just how much extra money lawmakers are giving the Pentagon, and where it’s going; Cruise Missile Threat 2.0; military families’ support for military service wanes; and more.

The Bunker: Army Flunks Recruiting 101

This week in The Bunker: Army recruiting woes highlight a growing chasm between soldiers and citizens; Pentagon sending silver bullets to Ukraine; the looming war with China (holler if you’ve heard this one before); and more.

The Bunker: A Tank by Any Other Name

This week in The Bunker: The Army tanks when it comes to naming its new weapon; the Navy pledges accountability while burying a critical report; NATO looks east; Justice Department questions a military merger; and more.

The Bunker: Outer-space Vote Fraud

This week in The Bunker: scouring the heavens for votes; a small Pacific island is becoming the fulcrum for the coming showdown with China; why the U.S. is good at winning battles and lousy at winning wars; and more.

The Bunker: Three New Military Triads…

This week in The Bunker: spending like drunken sailors; the unnerving rise in nuclear weapons spending; a proposal to build three national missile-defense systems; the Pentagon’s disinterest in the Yemen war; and more.

The Bunker: Tracking Cash, Tragic Crash

This week in The Bunker: as the U.S. pumps more than $50 billion into Ukraine, tensions rise over the best way to monitor the spending, an Air Force training tragedy; an upstart startup tries to reboot the Military-Industrial Complex; and more.

The Bunker: One Incredibly Lucky Submarine

his week in The Bunker: an investigation on the crash of a Navy submarine into the Pacific Ocean floor highlights just how bad things are under the waves; a recommended roster of new names for Army bases now honoring traitors; and more.

The Bunker: Pentagon Tries to Dodge Inflation

In The Bunker this week: the Pentagon stumbles again when it comes to financial storm clouds it would prefer to ignore; after-the-war costs continue to grow; taking a moment on this Memorial Day; and more.

The Bunker: The Military-Industrial Vortex

This week in The Bunker: Military-industrial coziness is never a good thing; the F-35 has opted to keep its own lousy nervous system instead of getting a transplant; tracking the U.S. bucks bound for Ukrainian; and more.

The Bunker: A Tale of Two Fighters

This week in The Bunker: Plane talk about four key Air Force aircraft running into fiscal, fixability, and political turbulence; a $64 million drone misses the runway; Mel Brooks goes to war; and more. No Bunker next week!

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