Back on the mainland, trouble was brewing. The U.S. government—and mainly the U.S. military—saw the writing on the wall, and knew that the "Indian problem" would soon be coming to a nasty, violent head. Suddenly the military bases on the islands of Hawai'i became even more important than they were before. Here were bases and assets that the SAIM "terrorists" couldn't sabotage or infiltrate easily. (Much harder for some militant Sioux warriors to blow the drek out of Pearl Harbor than to terrorize Colorado Springs—so the reasoning went, at least.) More and more major military research projects were moved to the islands, "out of harm's way."