DARPA helps drives technological progress in the US forward. If the EU wants to create a similar agency, key changes will be needed.
DARPA helps drives technological progress in the US forward. If the EU wants to create a similar agency, key changes will be needed.
The US defence industry does pretty well though, given that it makes the world’s best military hardware. Although of course Boeing has had problems in recent years so I guess it’s not all great.
But yeah military and civilian benefits would of course both be good, I’m just saying that military research has produced stuff that also has civilian benefits.
At what cost though? What about the rest of the U.S.'s public infrastructure, i.e. healthcare, education system, social security, etc?
The U.S.'s military industrial complex does well because the U.S. defense budget was $886 billion in 2024.
The U.S. drives on a fucked up system. We should be very careful about what we use as a role model.
Sure, I wouldn’t want US-style healthcare for Europe. I’m not saying Europe should copy everything that the US does, but imagine if European research (military or otherwise) came up with something as groundbreaking as the internet… that would be cool.