To me it reads the other way around, the big money folks in the tech sector are pushing their influence into the military.

You seem to be confused. When the tech industry starts appointing people to the military, it's America that is falling in line to them.

Direct commission is a long standing practice, especially for technical fields like medical and now electronic warfare. Surgeons may direct commission to varying field-grade ranks as well, with bonus structure to be competitive with private practice. Military outsources these technical degrees to bring in blood in these voids.

Nobody is taking orders from these guys. They're advisors.

You assume they don't agree.

They should get UEFA peace prize to temporarily get off Greenland.

The article you cited said it was done during wartime. It was a way to keep the scientists and technicians who were drafted into military service... so they can keep working in the laboratories they are already working in.

As a solution, the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) in May secured authorization to establish the Special Engineering Detachment (SED) to which technical and scientific personnel could be assigned upon being drafted

This was also why Werhner Von Braun was made an officer in the SS.

Almost everyone in the world is doing that except maybe China and some other countries.

This is nothing new. The Army has been doing this forever. A certain General Failure was reading my C: drive all the way back in the 80s.

I'll show myself out..

Way too easy to stir the pot here. Dig up some plausibly tech-themed political news from a few months ago, post, and watch the piranhas start nipping at it.