The Bunker

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.

This week in The Bunker (back after yet another week away, just like Congress!): President Trump keeps dulling deterrence; Pentagon slaps down $1 trillion-plus price tag for Golden Dome; Trump’s battleship goes nuclear; and more. And please don’t forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice this coming Monday, May 25, Memorial Day.

This week in The Bunker: Incredibly, a ravenous Pentagon can’t be sated with a $1.5 trillion annual budget; apparently, when it comes to the Iran war, no one really knows what time it is; massively, a big budget boost for robot-wars; and more. Heads-up: The Bunker will be away next week — see you back here May 20.

This week in The Bunker: President Trump’s Tom Swiftian battleship dream hits rough seas; his impenetrable missile shield of dreams runs into reality; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The U.S. finds itself trying to claw its way out of Iranian quicksand; the challenges of re-opening the Strait of Hormuz to free trade; why unfettered reporting from the Pentagon matters; and more.

This week in The Bunker: the White House says the Pentagon needs a 42% budget boost next year; SECDEF Hegseth takes time from the war in Iran to fight his Army; Trump wants to flip NATO’s mission upside down; mis-naming wars; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The U.S. weighs the need to send ground troops into Iran as the air campaign fails to get Tehran to capitulate; meanwhile, back at the Pentagon, SECDEF Pete Hegseth steps up his carpet-bombing of the press; and more.