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- The Pentagon repeatedly waived laws banning Chinese-built components on US weapons to keep the $392bn F-35 fighter Sensors and magnets for F-35 fighter jet were made in China • Pentagon issued waivers to ban on Chinese-made components Reuters in Washington theguardian.com, Sunday 12 January 2014 09.28 EST The Pentagon repeatedly waived laws banning Chinese-built components…
The U.S. gave armed jeeps to Guatemala through a military equipment program. Guatemala then used the jeeps to intimidate the American embassy and to scare protesters, according to congressional investigators.
The U.S. gave armed jeeps to Guatemala through a military equipment program. Guatemala then used the jeeps to intimidate the American embassy and to scare protesters, according to congressional investigators.
The Biden administration's first major move on Cuba is the strongest signal yet it has little appetite to reverse Trump-era policies toward the island nation.The State Department this past week listed Cuba as among those "not cooperating fully with United States antiterrorism efforts," renewing a determination first made in 2020.For those in favor of normalizing U.S. ties with Cuba, the move was seen as a purely political decision, but one...
Sales like this usually go through a great deal of scrutiny, not just by congress but the military as well to make sure the right weapons get into the right hands, it's not as simple as buy them and send them over. >> foreign military sales is something both the state department and the military commands are involved with, and they basically measure the capabilities and the requirements of the country that we're selling these weapons to. certainly we wouldn't sell weapons to countries that are using them illegally or against the law of land warfare, we tend to give these foreign military sales...