I've seen this many times before and it always presents Charles Wilson's aversion to "research" in a "haha what a luddite" manner. You have to understand that

I've seen this many times before and it always presents Charles Wilson's aversion to "research" in a "haha what a luddite" manner. You have to understand that Eisenhower believed that the military industrial complex was out of control. He brought Wilson in to help rein it in and reorganize the defense department. The military and military contractors were conducting "research" in the form of doing chemical and biological weapons experimentation on soldiers and civilians without their knowledge or consent. Wilson was trying to stop that. And of course many of the think tanks were trying to lead the United States into an offensive war against the Soviet Union, which Wilson and Eisenhower did not want or think was necessary. It's entirely probable that the only reason Bellman got funding to do this work at RAND was because they intended to use it for running their desired war.