Oh, it would probably also be a very good idea if someone researching Improved Espionage and Covert Operations Capabilities and Improved Counter-Espionage and Counter-Intelligence Capabilities, maybe the same person? Either way, if both are done, I'd like the people doing them to tell their research teams to work together. There'd be a lot of synergy in having the Offensive Guys tell the Defensive Guys all the tricks they come up with, so the Defensive Guys can try and block them, and the Defensive Guys telling the Offensive Guys all the tricks they've come up with to block the Offensive Guys' old and new tricks, so the Offensive Guys can try and get around those, or at least figure out how to know if they've been discovered.
And UbeOne, after I either succeed or fail at PROJECT TWERG, my main goal's going to be getting some orbital stuff happening.
Plan is
STAGE 1: Research Improved Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (New Catalysts, Standardised Fuels, New Rocket Fuels, New Medicines), Research Improved Communications Capability (If we want any satellites talking back, we'll need this, also so very useful elsewhere)
STAGE 2: Research Improved Understanding of Extreme Environmental Conditions (Earthquakes, Droughts, Floods, Cyclones/Hurricanes/Typhoons, Volcanoes, Artic Conditions, Desert Conditions, Jungle Conditions) and Research Improved Understanding of Orbital Mechanics and Exoatmospheric Conditions (Kinda needed for the best results of a space program, and to prevent embarrassing failures)
Design Extreme Environments Test Facility 1/2 (Get the bits that test all the extreme conditions on Earth designed)
STAGE 3: Research Orbital Rocketry and Research Artificial Satellites (Both self-explanatory)
Design Extreme Environments Test Facility 2/2 (Get the bits that test all the ridiculously extreme conditions on Earth (Volcanoes, Deep Sea Trenches, etc) and the Conditions in Space (Vacuum, Stellar Radiation, Cosmic Radiation, Solar Wind, Solar Flares, Lack of ability to vent heat) and those conditions endured to get into and out of space (Massive Gs to get into space, massive heat upon re-entry).
STAGE 4: Research Communications Satellites and Research Multi-Stage Rockets, Orbital and Not
Design Rocket to reach space and deliver an Artificial Satellite (Think Sputnik)
STAGE 5: Get an Communications Satellite Network (And a Spy Satellite Network) Set Up
STAGE 6: Develop and Set Up ASAT Capabilities and Satellite Defences (So enemy ASATs don't kill our satellites)