The Bunker

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.