**Acknowledgements**

The author would like to thank Gen. Tales Eduardo Areco Villela for supporting the Guarani Ecosystem interviews and Gen. Juraci Ferreira Galdino for his insightful thoughts on the Brazilian defense industry. This work was supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil (reference number: 203048/2015-6), and Sweden's Innovation Agency (Vinnova), Sweden (research grant numbers: 2018-02930 and 2021-03523).

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