The Bunker: Truth Decay
In The Bunker this week: Professor Bunker grades the U.S. government on its post-9/11 wars, the still-spinning revolving door, costly troops, your chance to rename an Army post, and more.
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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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Mark Thompson
The Bunker: Finished
This week in The Bunker: America has lost its longest war. Tough to come up with a cost-benefit analysis that justifies spending $2 billion a day on a military that can’t retreat properly.
The Bunker: Heartbreaking and Half-Baked
In The Bunker this week: Alas, All Afghanistan. The narrative is heartbreaking, the policy half-baked. The only silver lining is the lessons it provides, if those in charge would only pull their heads out of the sand to see them.
The Bunker: Afghanistan Down the Drain
This week in The Bunker: Afghanistan falls apart; a civil war inside the Military-Industrial Complex; let’s spend more on all-seeing eyes for enemy missiles; the arms shows that have become the Walmarts of war; & more.
The Bunker: The Way Things Were Before the War
In Afghanistan, watching 20 years of a U.S.-initiated stalemate slide into what’s increasingly looking like defeat; the value of having outsiders when the military drags its feet on saving lives; Pierre Sprey’s legacy; & more.
The Bunker: Follow All of the Money
A resource from POGO.org
The Bunker: Do You Feel a Draft?
This week in The Bunker: betcha didn’t know that KISS stands for “Keep It Simple, Sailor”; lawmakers continue to push for a bigger role in going to war; Afghanistan continues its sad slide into chaos; & more.
The Bunker: Out With the Old, In With the New
In The Bunker this week: too many bombers and ships; a tired broadside fired at the Navy; a senator slows down the revolving door; using the wrong yardstick, again, in yet another U.S. war; and more.
The Bunker: Unseen Threats
The topsy-turvy turmoil continues this week.
The Bunker: The Epitaph That Will Endure
The Bunker takes a single week off to celebrate Independence Day and things start going haywire.
The Bunker: A Farce-Sizing Construct
This week in The Bunker: back to a two-war “force-sizing construct”; Congress moves to kill its Iraq-war OK; troops can now file claims against military doctors; no Bunker next week, & more.
The Bunker: Danger Dressed As Deterrence
This week in The Bunker: the Pentagon’s warped preoccupation with speed; the Navy’s nuclear-tipped cruise missile makes a U-turn; the GAO’s dire annual report on how the Defense Department buys its weapons; & more.
