Short-term, I hope we’re smart enough to reduce the military budget significantly when we don’t have to fight over resources so much. Maybe we’ll actually do it, if we can transition contractors to space-related activities.
Long-term, I’m guessing the space budget gets a lot bigger than the current military budget, but it’s mostly in the private sector. Things like asteroid mining are easy to make profitable when you can get to space for thirty bucks a pound.
The military budget gets bigger, and mostly space-based, to make sure none of those miners drop asteroids on us.
