Well, I thought the article brought up some interesting space points. The reality you talk of would never happen as space money is not allocated based on military surplus. Just like if everybody had health care, space money would still be a tough sell.

And for a topic change;
Teets says that the US is the leader in space do to pursuing the high road in technology while the Soviets took the low road. Now nearly forty years later the low road system is what is keeping ISS alive.

I'm not sure how to curtail the roller coaster syndrome of the space industry other than providing long term high tech goals of space related missions and equipment and that would tend to be expensive.