Imaginary or at least Greatly Exaggerated for Fun and Profit

On the twelfth anniversary of 9/11 I felt like rereading "The Cobweb" by "Stephen Bury" because of its representation of the Intelligence Bureaucracy, and how it provided the only explanation of what happens inside it that ever made sense to me. Wherein I found this in a chapter about a research center at a fictional university:  "(they) were thinking about how to replace all the DARPA soft money now that the Cold War was over." This parallel had never occurred to me before,  that the Cold War and The Global War on Terror have a great deal in common, particularly when it comes to money. I have a very good friend who has had a very firm grip on a government teat for many years. Although it's been said, many times, many ways, there's plenty good money to be made supplying the Army (et al) with the tools of the trade.