The stuff is not important until it is. There are no guarantees that it will never be important and priorities can shift within minutes.
That's why safeguards and buffers are valuable. That's why mindless exhortations of achieving greater speed are dangerous and regular reviews of Obvious Things We Are Neglecting are essential.
Don't count on common sense. I would like to see a comparison of the amount of planning on border security versus that on defense against interplanetary invasion.
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