The Army needs to win

Today I wrote my first proposal to the Army. So here's my tongue in cheek accounting of it...

I think they are interested in creative new ways to use a vague new field called "biotechnology" to do their job. So I had to answer questions like the following:

Q: What is the significance of your work to the Army's needs?

A: Well, the Army needs to win. And to win, they need to kill people and break things. And so, the Army needs to control things it does not currently understand; for example, life. As a first step toward controlling life, they need to simulate it on a computer. And so, the Army needs to start with simulating small things that make up life, like little molecules. It is important that the Army simulate little molecules using our methods. They simply must. And they need to give us money to do it. The fate of the free world depends upon it.

Okay, okay. There's kind of a conceptual leap involved going from "the Army needs to win" to "the Army must give us money", but I'll assure the Army it depends on sound reasoning that they do not yet understand, but will in time. After we get the money, of course.