L. Neil Smith on Conscripting Our Future in The Libertarian Enterprise:
I can make the case — and I will sometime, in another column — that it isn't secret weapons that end wars, anyway, but the weapons your enemy knows about and fears. We'd have won World War II without nukes; the Japanese were on their knees. Nor am I impressed with "smart" bombs that blow up aspirin factories or stealth aircraft that are limited to subsonic speeds and can't fly in the rain. Maybe that last is why Silverfoot Junior chose the Middle East to pick a fight in.
Recently a friend of mine in a position to know told me that our universities have started "going dark", meaning that they'll no longer share, with the citizens forced to pay for them, any of their projects or discoveries deemed sensitive to issues of national security. Such items are being systematically removed from websites all over the country.
Give it a read, it's a good one.