Most significantly, we need to find out the conditions under which firms are able to impose their will on governments. While concerns over the rise of a cyber-military-industrial complex may arguably be exaggerated, recent developments in cyberspace require further investigations. Historically, the MIC has been part of the rise of defence electronics and therefore of Silicon Valley. The latter was ultimately the Pentagon’s third-largest recipient county in the United States at the height of the Reagan build-up in the 1980s.Footnote84 Today, Silicon Valley is not only home to Google, Tesla and some of the most advanced defence electronics firms, but also of the many cybersecurity companies that operate from there. Between a number of these companies and the US government, there is an extensive exchange – not only of services, but also of personnel (i.e. revolving doors). These dynamics are similarly observable in the PMSCs market. Therefore, one might also argue that concerns over the rise of a MIC may even be an understatement. The reason is that we observe an evolution from cybersecurity firms helping the government to generate force towards the independent capacity of these firms to wage war more effectively than most states would be ever able to do.Footnote85 If this occurred and, then, drove public-private coordination in cyberspace, international security would be drastically transformed.