The Bunker

This week in The Bunker: The U.S. military’s ethos for service gets wrapped around the axle over Iran, killing American civilians, and charting the proper course when it comes to enlisting artificial intelligence for war; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Trump’s threatening war on Iran despite U.S. public opposition, a Congress that’s out to lunch, and allies who are all but absent; such unilateralism is making such allies less likely to support the U.S. or buy its weapons; and more. 

This week in The Bunker: Lasers have occupied prime real estate in the Pentagon brain as a wonder weapon that’s cheap and effective, even as decades of experience reveal neither is true; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The scent of more cash for the Pentagon rising from Capitol Hill will send the military and its contractors fighting for their share of the legislative loot; the Air Force and Navy scramble their jets pushing for, yep, more warplanes; the final nuclear-arms pact between the U.S. and Russia expires; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Hairline cracks appear in a critical element of President Trump’s Golden Dome aerial shield; the Ukrainian military shows how drones are rewriting the rules of war; the U.S. military struggles to protect U.S. bases from drone attacks; and more.

In The Bunker this week: The Pentagon’s new, alarmingly political National Defense Strategy pulls the U.S. back from its historic post-World War II role; how Congress makes an inefficient Defense Department even more so (yea, hard to believe, we know); the Pentagon’s $23 billion that’s gone AWOL; and more. 

This week in The Bunker: Dissembler-in-Chief Donald Trump delivers whoppers in his push to justify his apparently insatiable appetite for the world’s biggest island; and more. 

This week in The Bunker: President Donald Trump galumphs around the globe, lighting fuses and daring them not to explode; he calls for inflating Pentagon budgets from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion virtually overnight; he trains his fire on hidebound and well-fed defense contractors who would most benefit from such force-fed cash; and more.

This week in The Bunker: a self-inflicted hemispheric headache; buffoonish battleships; F-35 pickpockets taxpayers (again!); the answer, my friend, ain’t blowin’ in the wind; and more.

This week in The Bunker: the public’s military myopia; Navy destroyer maintenance soars above projection; time for cheaper weapons; and more. Happy holidays, Bunker buddies: we’re taking a couple of weeks off and will be back January 7, 2026. 

This week in The Bunker: President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continue to methodically make the U.S. military more like their own private militia, while simultaneously shuffling the nation closer to the edge of the world stage; and more.

This week in The Bunker: yet another class of U.S. Navy warships sinks into oblivion; the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know who’s building President Trump’s Golden Dome pipedream; parting words from the late SECDEF Dick Cheney; and more.