The Bunker

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.

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.