The Bunker

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.

This week in The Bunker: Back in the 1980s, the Pentagon hyped the Soviet threat so loudly that we spent unneeded billions; now that we can see how bad their Russian progeny is…well, we’re going to spend unneeded billions again; and more.

This week in The Bunker: That Russian hypersonic-missile attack in Ukraine doesn’t appear quite as advertised; a Ukrainian battle tactic offers a warning for the U.S. Navy; new woes for the F-35 fighter and Zumwalt destroyers; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The U.S. walks a fuzzy line, trying to help Ukraine battle Russia without starting World War III, as it says “no” to warplanes and no-fly zones; the “every inch” rhetoric; Germany buys a pig in a poke; and more.

This week: The Russian invasion of Ukraine appears to show the Russian military might not be all it’s cracked up to be, and how wrong pre-invasion reports of its prowess were; a new tack on the military’s continuing suicide epidemic; and more.

This week in The Bunker: A nuclear-megatonned megalomaniac forged by the Cold War KGB, and how little the Pentagon and NATO can do to thwart him; the Navy continues to be at sea when it comes to building ships; and more.

This week in The Bunker: A trio of good-news tales on hardware and hypersonics, balanced by more business-as-usual when it comes to missile defense and sexual assaults; stealthy NATO; and more.

In The Bunker this week: climbing below decks to find out what’s ailing the U.S. Navy; Congress (again) fails to do its job; the battle over reporting requirements; why the U.S. can’t win its wars; and more.

This week in The Bunker: a hat trick of hardware headaches involving the F-35, a blueprint for mediocrity, and the defense-industrial base; Biden’s missing words; Walter Reed 2.0; lightning strikes twice; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Enough of defense-business merger-mania; Boeing and the Air Force continue to struggle at the gas pump; key weapons info suddenly MIA; despite such woes, the defense biz is booming; a Bunker bye-bye; and more.

This week in The Bunker: applying the same somber label to troop and Pentagon procurement casualties; let’s keep weapons simple, stupid; tracking the risks associated with overseas arms sales; and more.

In The Bunker this week: The military has more ideas for new toys; Congress is ready to throw more money at the Pentagon; watchdogs accused of wrongdoing and more.