The Bunker

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.

This week in The Bunker: Trump unilaterally tries to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War because it sounds cooler to him; nonetheless, war contractors push for more spending on defense; the F-35’s bogus bonuses; and more. 

This week in The Bunker: The changes now underway at the Pentagon and in the broader national-security arena risk politicizing what for 250 years has been an ironclad commitment to a military impervious to partisan machinations; what happens when shiny hardware distracts the military from doing simple things right, and more.

This week in The Bunker: Clashes over whether a $1 trillion defense budget is enough; a new transactional U.S. policy to arm Ukraine; Pentagon R&D budget offers clues to future warfighting; and more; TEN-shun! The Bunker is now starting its summer break and will return September 3. 

This week in The Bunker: The share of the defense budget going to contractors has soared since the 1990s; Pentagon wish lists return to Capitol Hill; the Army continues stonewalling when faced with unpleasant news; and more. 

This week in The Bunker: B-2 bombers buzz the White House; a purported defense-reform bill is anything but; the deadly cost of honing the U.S. military’s combat edge; and more.