How to fix the Pentagon's budget problems

Each year, Americans are passengers on the same political train wreck. Instead of Congress doing its main job of passing annual budgets , we get incremental, temporary extensions of what we are already doing. Called continuing resolutions, these funding stopgaps put us on autopilot, wasting an average of four months and 8% of our buying power every year.

The focus then inevitably shifts to who gets blamed for that failure. The spotlight should be on who gets hurt by it.

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For defense, the continuing resolution autopilot stalls progress on buying better weapons, weakens America’s military, hurts in