The Bunker

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

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.

Grappling with extremists in uniform, peeking at the widening U.S. anti-terror war, and the Air Force’s new tanker finally comes out to play.

After decades of hearing about gold-plated aircraft like the B-2, F-22, and F-35, it’s refreshing to see that the Air Force is banking hard toward a new lower-cost fighter.

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.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin picked up on The Bunker’s challenge right away last week.

Tectonic shifts: National defense is a lot more complicated than you might think, as two crises make plain.

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.

The Bunker bids President Trump farewell, as Miller time comes to an end at the Pentagon.

For the second time in less than a year, our vaunted national-security apparatus has failed us.

Yawn (rubs eyes). We’re back? Did we miss anything? Actually, in The Bunker’s absence, we got to see the U.S. military rebuff President Trump & Co., and Congress override one of his vetoes for the first time…

Following the Electoral College’s confirmation of Joe Biden as the nation’s 46th president, The Bunker checks out his Pentagon nominee, and the assorted challenges he’ll face, including a naval-fleet fantasy.