One of the problems Wikner saw in Vietnam was that the Pentagon, including ARPA, was employing high-tech solutions to what were often low-tech problems. Dragon’s Jaw bridge was actually the exception; most of the problems the military faced in Vietnam did not call for technological novelty. Wikner angered military officers because he would tell them they did not understand the science, and then he angered scientists, because he told them they did not understand war.
