This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Thompson, a national-security analyst at the Project On Government Oversight, has spent 40+ years writing about the U.S. military.
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
Pentagon scientists seek to make food for forward-deployed troops out of air, water, and electricity. Not sure what that means for those tiny bottles of sauce that travel with U.S. troops and their MREs.
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
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Holds up pretty well one year later. The tweet, not the story...
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Given last summer’s U.S. assessment of the Taliban’s power to take over in Afghanistan—it fell within days with huge civilian toll, stunning U.S. intelligence—we probably should take this with a grain of salt.
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
China has the Pentagon coming and going: hypersonic missiles traveling +5 times the speed of sound, and a lazy balloon drifting across Montana.
defense.gov/News/Transcrip
This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
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War Inc. There is something vaguely unsettling about a nearly $5 billion contract — even if spread over 15 years — awarded to a 3-year old company. The complex line between military and industrial continues to blur.
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
Back to the Future. taps a pair of relatively small companies — no Boeings or Lockmarts here — to design a cargo-carrying seaplane.
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
Lawmakers engage in new effort to kill Pentagon wish lists. They suggest such lists may be part of “budget gamesmanship” used to crowbar defense spending skyward. As Captain Renault said: “I’m shocked!”
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It boggles this taxpayer’s mind, such as it is, that the Pentagon has to hire outsiders to train its workforce to win wars.
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
Happy Groundhog Day! Every day is Groundhog Day at the Defense Department, where Pentagonsutawney Phil pokes his head out of the courtyard and sees shadowy threats. Then he declares that six more years of ever-escalating military budgets lie ahead.
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
Disjointed Operations. How the Air Force is shortchanging the grunts on the ground. ’s comes up with the evidence inside the training documents for the Air Force’s F-35 pilots.
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This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
This week in THE BUNKER: why the U.S. is slow-walking its M1 tanks to Ukraine; artificial intelligence is making killer robots a sure thing; the Army cuts e-dummies that could save soldiers’ lives; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
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Eureka! After decades of research, Pentagon finally finds laser weapons that work.
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When Everything’s a Threat, Nothing’s a Threat. Air Force declares potential Chinese construction of a corn processing plant 12 miles from North Dakota's Grand Forks Air Force Base is “a significant threat to national security.”
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Chow Time. “Maintenance cannabilizations” — where parts are shifted from one U.S. Navy warship to another because there are none in the warehouse — are steadily rising, reports.
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This week in THE BUNKER: a Pentagon hat (helmet?) trick of bad news: about new weapons, about a persistent Pentagon bookkeeping nightmare, and about a toxic leader who oversaw U.S. military spending; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
This week in THE BUNKER: a Pentagon hat (helmet?) trick of bad news: about new weapons, about a persistent Pentagon bookkeeping nightmare, and about a toxic leader who oversaw U.S. military spending; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
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This week in THE BUNKER: a Pentagon hat (helmet?) trick of bad news: about new weapons, about a persistent Pentagon bookkeeping nightmare, and about a toxic leader who oversaw U.S. military spending; and more. Read it here.
pogo.org/analysis/2023/
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“This month’s flight added an exclamation point to the most successful hypersonic airbreathing flight test program in US history,” said Walter Price, an Air Force deputy for the HAWC program.
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