Although the military began after World War II with a liberal policy of supporting science more or less on its own terms, pressures from the Korean War, the Cold War, the Indochina War, and, later, shifting National priorities away from defense expenditures, acted in parallel with normal budgetary pressures to force the development of a hierarchial system for stimulating university research in areas of concern to the military. This process occurred slowly, with adequate time for the university scientists’ interests to develop in parallel. Problems developed when the exponential growth in funds available from the military ended.