Without making any statement of adherence from my part (on your perspective, or any of the below), I'll give you some possible alternative perspectives I can th

Without making any statement of adherence from my part (on your perspective, or any of the below), I'll give you some possible alternative perspectives I can think of: - "this way I can help our guys protect innocent civilians" - "I need to sell this to to develop my baby (which I'm sure will ultimately benefit humanity); I'd prefer to sell this to Indian orphanages, too bad they have no budget or use for this" As a anside, the product has already been sold to Argentinian mountaineering search-and-rescue teams. To get an idea of the motivations or people in the Army, I can recommend "why I chose a gun", a 15 minute TED talk by a Dutch army officer that explains his reasoning. https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_van_uhm_why_i_chose_a_gun/transcript https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_van_uhm_why_i_chose_a_gun/tr... Or to give some historical perspective: Christiaan Huygens developed clocks for (military) naval navigation. Not because he was the type of gung-ho "let's kick some French ass" type of guy. In fact, he collaborated scientifically with French and English, being Dutch, even when for example France was at war with Holland. He just wanted to Make Something People Love (tm). And at the time, the only one able to foot that sort of R&D bill was the state. If the state had not invested huge sums like that, it's not at all obvious that he would have been able to perform his work.