Reelection of politicians in areas with military industry, of course.
That's also the reason why the Airbus plane parts are built, shipped around all over Europe before final assembly - in order to provide funding to EADS/Airbus, European politicians wanted to secure jobs for their specific countries, even if this adds significant logistic and cost challenges.
Even science suffers from this "localism"... just look at ITER.
Summarized: No one will dare to cancel or significantly reduce any major weapons/science/collaborative project, because any politician who votes for "shut down a program that employs people in my voter area" will face the consequence of not being reelected.
Reelection of politicians in areas with military industry, of course.
That's also the reason why the Airbus plane parts are built, shipped around all over Europe before final assembly - in order to provide funding to EADS/Airbus, European politicians wanted to secure jobs for their specific countries, even if this adds significant logistic and cost challenges.
Even science suffers from this "localism"... just look at ITER.
Summarized: No one will dare to cancel or significantly reduce any major weapons/science/collaborative project, because any politician who votes for "shut down a program that employs people in my voter area" will face the consequence of not being reelected.