The Bunker: There's Got to Be a Better Way
The intense focus on spending more to win the peace, or at least an uneasy truce, suggests that the U.S. is playing the wrong game, and has been for quite a while.
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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: Let the Arms Race Begin
We’re up in arms here at The Bunker this week: arms spending, arms control and arms sales. So let the arms race begin!
The Bunker: The Show Must Go On
The bigger a bureaucracy gets, the less inclined it is to take chances. And the Pentagon is among the world’s biggest bureaucracies.
The Bunker: Are Major Pentagon Cuts Coming?
Only inside the Pentagon is “legacy” a bad word. For the rest of us, it suggests something good that someone did, usually before leaving this realm. But at the Defense Department, it has long been the code word for “aging,” as in “aging weapons.”
The Bunker: Introducing: The Bunker
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