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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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The Bunker: Can You Pick Out the April Fool?

This week in The Bunker: plumbing parallels between the Pentagon and The Bunker’s first new car, the Army comes under increasing fire for its Pacific offensive...

The Bunker: Unready for Inspection

This week: Army popguns, a decline in Americans’ trust in the military, and Congress deep-sixes public reports on warship readiness.

The Bunker: A New Death Star in the Defense Department

The Pentagon legacy lexicon: from its definition, to one legacy weapon that warrants retirement, to one that doesn’t, to a third that increasingly looks like it has “legacy” written all over it, even before it enters full-scale production.

The Bunker: Heads Up, America!

This week: The Pentagon’s unjust desserts, naval warfare, more on the cost of sexual assault in the ranks, and the fraying relationship between U.S. civilians and their military.

The Bunker: Get-Into-War-Free Card

Bleak Week: Civilians turnstiling through the Pentagon, Congress MIA when it comes to combat, the “arsenal of democracy” is running on fumes, and two Air Force pilots run out of sky.

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