Post-cold-war, progress in things like IT infrastructure have been driven much more by the private sector than by military needs. Look at rocketry for example.

Post-cold-war, progress in things like IT infrastructure have been driven much more by the private sector than by military needs. Look at rocketry for example. The moment the impetus of a serious threat is gone, the US decided to put all their space money into a useless boondoggle that was more about spreading the pork around into the right congressional districts than seriously advancing rocketry or space exploration.