How nice for you that you have the privilege and luxury to take that moral high ground. You would think differently if you had a friend or family member in the military.

If we're going to have a military at all then our warfighters deserve the best killing technology we can provide to help keep the enemy from killing them. While the military does do some research in house, since we live in a capitalist society much of the work will always have to be done by private contractors.