The Bunker

This week in The Bunker: when the new weapons don’t work, you can always push the Pentagon to improve the old ones that still do; let me know if you’ve heard this one before: the Russians are still coming; and more.

This week: Trying to tame (some) bullies by cutting trade ties with them; the Marines complain the Navy wants to mothball the ships it needs to patrol the seas; after years of debate, those Army posts named for Confederates will soon be history

This week in The Bunker: how the Navy is buying an undersea drone without knowing if the contractor can build it; “wokeism” in the U.S. military, and how such fear-mongering has festered at home and abroad; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons offers a lesson to the world’s atomic powers; U.S. troops get financial aid; latest Pentagon weapons-cost report missing weapons cost; and more.

This week in The Bunker: as Kyiv gains the upper hand in Ukraine, the moment of maximum desperation looms for Vladimir Putin; what we didn’t learn from the official probe into a fatal F-16 crash; bargain base-name bleaching; and more.

This week in The Bunker: B-52 bombers get their biggest overhaul ever, even as the Pentagon plans to scrap newer ICBMs; electromagnetic pulse weapons as a national-security threat; Little Debbie snacks go AWOL; and more.

This week in The Bunker: sexual assault in the ranks is getting worse; a special commission takes aim at Confederates plaguing the U.S. Military Academy; Biden’s poor choice for his “soul of America” speech; and more.

This week in The Bunker: the Pentagon, under pressure, produces a policy to protect civilians amid war; the conflict in Ukraine won’t end anytime soon; the great jet-engine lottery; and more.

This week in The Bunker: why did the Air Force ground their V-22s while Marine tilt-rotors are still flying?; a new two-China policy; the Pentagon finally rolls out a social media policy; and more.

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

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.

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.