The Bunker

This week in The Bunker: President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continue to methodically make the U.S. military more like their own private militia, while simultaneously shuffling the nation closer to the edge of the world stage; and more.

This week in The Bunker: yet another class of U.S. Navy warships sinks into oblivion; the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know who’s building President Trump’s Golden Dome pipedream; parting words from the late SECDEF Dick Cheney; and more.

This week in The Bunker: a spike in U.S. military accidents sets off a hunt for their elusive cause; defense contractors fight to maintain their maintenance monopoly; Army humans launch Army robots to feed Army humans; and more. 

This week in The Bunker: like a rookie defense secretary a long time ago, a new Army civilian chief without previous Pentagon baggage finds defense procurement wanting; military choppers face turbulence; more gold needed for Golden Dome; and more.

This week in The Bunker: the Defense Department launches yet another scheme to change the way it buys weapons; an early holiday wish list for the Air Force; the Senate disgracefully wimps out when it comes to curbing presidential war-making; and more.

This week in The Bunker: President Trump muddies the waters when it comes to resuming U.S. nuclear-weapons tests; the Pentagon’s biggest contractor hypes readiness that’s MIA; contractors are still waiting on Golden Dome’s design; and more. Oh, and a heartfelt helmet tip to vets ahead of their special day next Tuesday, November 11.

This week in The Bunker: More U.S. national security Trumpfoolery; just how stealthy are submarines; drone-killing boom times; misplaced U.S. defense spending priorities; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Getting kicked out of the Pentagon hasn’t dulled reporters’ appetite for news; the Defense Department’s ever-changing flow charts; scrutiny of new weapons dives as spending soars; and more.

This week in The Bunker: the world’s “greatest deliberative body” is little more than pusillanimity on parade when it comes to checking President Trump’s Caribbean combat; the F-35 paperweight; the Pentagon wages war on the press; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The Defense Department’s civilian leader and his boss muster hundreds of top U.S. military officers so the pair could decant their favorite old whines into new bottles; rising costs of silo-based ICBMs resurrect a still-madcap scheme to put them on trucks; and more.

This week in The Bunker: A one-man war, a pox on independent Pentagon reporting, a close shave; and more. No Bunker next week!

This week in The Bunker: As flashing red lights increasingly make clear that the future of war involves drones without pilots, the Pentagon continues to spend trillions on crewed aircraft; one way to save money on the next ICBM; the Air Force’s rose-colored glasses; and more.