The military involved with POET?...heresy! Where's your proof?
Of course the military has it, and likely is using it already, you'd have to be living in a cave not to believe that.
Personally, I don't believe I've ever wavered on how good POET is....what I did totally mess up on is how long it would take to get this thing to market.
Vietnam is another dot that is dismissed, or at least minimized by the naysayers.
I agree that getting overly optimistic is not a good plan, but when you have a sea of dots, cnaces are, they line up in some way.