" President Eisenhower was fed up with the interservice rivalries. Having commanded the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II, he held deep convictions regarding the value of unity among the military services. As president, he had been a crusader against the excessive waste of resources that came from service duplication. "

― Annie Jacobsen , The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency