The Bunker

This week in The Bunker: After a half-year of on-again off-again war, the U.S. finds itself lodged in a conflict it has proven unable to win; questions about the Pentagon’s Golden Dome aerial shield continue to go unanswered; ousting the high command at Stars and Stripes newspaper says more about brittle Pentagon leaders than hard-hitting reporters; and more.

This week in The Bunker: President Trump metamorphosizes into Captain Nemo with orders to remake key elements of the U.S. Navy; then he ungraciously dismisses the mental-health concerns of sailors kept at sea to fight his self-spontaneously combusted war with Iran; and more.

This week in The Bunker: While we were gone, the Iran war continued on semi-autopilot; meanwhile, new reports detail woes with, among other things, the Air Force’s ancient B-52 bomber and yet-to-be-built Trump battleship; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The Defense Department bars release of an independent federal probe into its most costly weapons system for the first time in 20 years; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, M.D., orders troop testosterone screening; and more.

This week in The Bunker: After dilly-dallying for decades, the Pentagon’s glacial embrace of drones picks up steam as the Defense Department issues orders for more and cheaper models, and a way to destroy more and cheaper enemy versions; and more.

This week in The Bunker: This Pentagon is taking too much time to explain Iran attacks gone awry; gutting the Defense Department’s testing office gets a failing grade; new accounting shows we’re spending a lot more on yesterday’s troops than today’s; and more.

This week in The Bunker: as the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, the military-industrial-complex-reflex bestows a bumper crop of baubles, blunders, and baloney; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The Iran peace deal signals peace for Tehran and a raw deal for the U.S.; two of the nation’s biggest manufacturers join forces to try to build weapons faster; the Air Force’s new tanker plane’s dangerous hitch; and more.

This week in The Bunker: In its rush to buy F-35s, the Pentagon is shortchanging the spare parts and maintenance needed to keep them flying; Congress orders the military to keep flying fleets of warplanes it wants to retire; the sole threat from China; and more.

This week in The Bunker: When the fiscal floodgates open, lots of ways to spend defense dollars bloom — a new bunker buster; a warning that our stock of warplanes is waning; how about a new military service while we’re at it; and more.

Congress stands up to the Pentagon and demands it show that the Trump-class battleship’s weapons will actually work (imagine that!); the A-10 attack plane continues to dodge Pentagon flak; peacekeeper numbers worldwide continue to dwindle; and more.

This week in The Bunker: When the political atmosphere supports spending $1.5 trillion next year on national defense, some sketchy ideas will surely surface — like sketching out the need to wage war on the Moon; or sketching out blueprints for a newerest bomber before the Pentagon’s newest bomber has even gone operational; and more.