Budget misery not going away.

• Position: Washington PULSE - Army - Brief article

The Army got eleventh-hour emergency funding relief from Congress last month, but its budget woes are far from over. While hundreds of billions of dollars in war funding have flowed its way, it is disconcerting to many that the Army ran out of money this summer and had to shut down mess halls and was late paying utility bills. The simple answer is that the defense budgeting process has yet to catch up with reality. The Army most likely prepared its...