POST: Why Does Lockheed Spend Money on Think Tanks?, By Nathan Hodge, Danger Room, December 4, 2009

Old theme of mine: defense contractors will do fine with the shift to SysAdmin ops/small wars/COIN. Going back to PNM, I argued that the dual-use here is almost universal, meaning anything you create for this market in the military realm will have great public and private-sector use outside of the military realm.

So yes, the Lockheeds will do very well with this shift.

But no, that doesn't make bloggers who argue for this nefarious.

I will tell you flat out: I have made a lot of money giving my brief and this argument to defense contractors. I consider it God's work, and yeah, I don't mind getting paid for being good at what I do.