Providing arms is intimately related to and is often a precondition for developing closer diplomatic, financial, trade and comprehensive military ties with other nations. No country has more influence over international lending agencies than the U.S. and weapons aren't supplied free of charge.
Over the past decade the Pentagon has constructed and gained access to new military bases, camps, airfields, training centers and surveillance and missile shield installations in at least thirty nations, bilaterally and through NATO: Afghanistan, Australia, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Colombia, Djibouti, Estonia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mali, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Oman, Qatar, Romania, Seychelles, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates and Zambia among them.
Weapons sales necessarily entail training and instruction, joint military exercises, parts replacement, maintenance and repairs, and upgrading and other modifications. In short, an integral and long-term partnership between the supplier and the purchaser. A mechanism for eliminating competitors in Washington's drive for worldwide military and political dominance.
1) Pentagon's Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since World War II
Stop NATO, December 23, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/pentagons-christmas-present-largest-military-budget-since-world-war-ii
2) Obama Doctrine: Eternal War For Imperfect Mankind
Stop NATO, December 10, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/obama-doctrine-eternal-war-for-imperfect-mankind
3) McClatchy Newspapers, July 29, 2010
4) Ibid
5) Obama, Gates And Clinton In Asia: U.S. Expands Military Build-Up In The
East
Stop NATO, November 7, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/obama-gates-and-clinton-in-asia-u-s-expands-military-build-up-in-the-east
6) Global Times, July 13, 2010
http://world.globaltimes.cn/asia-pacific/2010-07/550830.html
7) Anika Anand, The Real Reason For Obama's Trip To India: The Sixth
Biggest Arms Deal In U.S. History
Business Insider, November 6, 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-10-us-arms-deals-in-history-2010-11
8) Germany: World Arms Merchant In First Post-WW II Combat
Stop NATO, July 24, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/206
9) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Yearbook 2010
http://www.sipri.org/yearbook/2010/05
10) Han Xudong, Arms sales help US extend its sphere of influence
Global Times, December 28, 2010
http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/commentary/2010-12/604721.html
11) Pentagon's New Global Military Partner: Sweden
Stop NATO, August 25, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2380
12) The Financiarul, September 9, 2009
13) Sofia Echo, June 29, 2010
14) U.S.-China Military Tensions Grow
Stop NATO, January 19, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/u-s-china-military-tensions-grow
15) U.S. Builds Military Alliance With Japan, South Korea For War In The
East
Stop NATO, December 14, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/u-s-builds-military-alliance-with-japan-south-korea-for-war-in-the-east
16) Global Times, December 28, 2010
17) Arabian Business, December 26, 2010
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/us-is-gulf-region-s-top-weapons-supplier-sipri-369338.html
18) SIPRI Fact Sheet, March 2010
http://books.sipri.org/files/FS/SIPRIFS1003.pdf
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