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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: 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!

The Bunker: Pentagon Hardware Hijinks

This week in The Bunker: a deadly drone from a rinky-dink contractor heads to Ukraine; a big contractor proposes linking up various U.S. missile-defense systems; the Army may be wasting up to $22 billion on soldiers’ super-goggles; and more.

The Bunker: U.S. Arms for Ukraine — Supply Line or Tripwire?

This week in The Bunker: U.S. weapons stocks shrink as the Pentagon sends more arms to Ukraine, risking a wider war with Russia; “The sky is falling,” the Pentagon warns about space warfare; micro-nuke reactors for the battlefield; and more.

The Bunker: Republican Apparatchiks

This week in The Bunker: Amid the Russo-Ukrainian war, a big chunk of House Republicans backs Putin over NATO; a nuclear-missile tug of war; despite a $813 billion budget request, the military says it needs more money; and more.

The Bunker: The F-22’s Forlorn Fate

This week in The Bunker: the Air Force fighter built for a threat that never was; Army’s top general warns his service is becoming a family business; hunger in the ranks; rebelling against widespread Confederate names; and more.

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