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USS John F. Kennedy
Military Industrial Complex

Why US shipbuilding is the worst and more money won't save it

Someone should tell Trump the real reason the fleet is so small

Golden Dome Iron Dome
Military Industrial Complex

Saying the quiet part out loud: All that glitters is not 'Golden Dome'

It may be what insiders call a 'monster systems engineering problem' but contractors are all too happy to indulge the dream

POGO
Military Industrial Complex

The non-empires strike back

This week in The Bunker: There’s really only one way to make major cuts in the Pentagon budget

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?
Washington Politics

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

Piecing together newly unredacted files and personal accounts, we know now there was a powerful shift against the agency's 'rogue autonomy.' Until there wasn't.

Musk Hegseth
Military Industrial Complex

DOGE wants to cut the Pentagon — by 0.07%

His recently announced meager $580m reduction is just an exercise in reshuffling

Lobby Horse
QiOSK

Lobby Horse: Selling war where it counts, in DC metros and buses

The Beltway is where all deals happen, so like it or not you cannot escape the big sell