The Bunker

This week in The Bunker: Incredibly, a ravenous Pentagon can’t be sated with a $1.5 trillion annual budget; apparently, when it comes to the Iran war, no one really knows what time it is; massively, a big budget boost for robot-wars; and more. Heads-up: The Bunker will be away next week — see you back here May 20.

This week in The Bunker: President Trump’s Tom Swiftian battleship dream hits rough seas; his impenetrable missile shield of dreams runs into reality; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The U.S. finds itself trying to claw its way out of Iranian quicksand; the challenges of re-opening the Strait of Hormuz to free trade; why unfettered reporting from the Pentagon matters; and more.

This week in The Bunker: the White House says the Pentagon needs a 42% budget boost next year; SECDEF Hegseth takes time from the war in Iran to fight his Army; Trump wants to flip NATO’s mission upside down; mis-naming wars; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The U.S. weighs the need to send ground troops into Iran as the air campaign fails to get Tehran to capitulate; meanwhile, back at the Pentagon, SECDEF Pete Hegseth steps up his carpet-bombing of the press; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Trump’s ever-evolving war aims make it difficult for the U.S. public to understand his ever-shifting logic for taking the nation to war against Iran; where have all the minesweepers gone?; a $1.5 trillion U.S. military budget buys only “the most essential things”; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The destruction of a girls’ elementary school in Iran is just the latest in the U.S. military’s too-long list of accurately hitting aim points that never should have been targets; the U.S. stumbles in the Strait of Hormuz, again; saving money by scrapping parachutes; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Every war is instructive in its own way, and the U.S. war on Iran is already offering up “lessons learned” for future conflicts; and more.

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.