04675nam  2200445 i 4500001001200000003000800012005001700020008004100037020002500078020002200103040003100125082001200156245005700168246001500225264010300240264001900343300005300362336002100415337002500436338002300461490004300484500001700527521001000544520006400554504005100618505171500669505124202384650005803626650005803684651004703742651005903789650003303848650005103881650005003932651005403982650005204036650003804088830004404126856005904170CCE19400862MnSgEFL20190430130552.0190430t20192019maua     b    001 0 eng d  a9781642652208 (pbk.)  a1642652202 (pbk.)  aMnSgEFLbengcMnSgEFLerda14a38221500aU.S. national debate topic, 2019-2020 :barms sales.30aArms sales 1a[Ipswich, MA] :bEBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; aAmenia, NY :bGrey House Publishing,c[2019] 4ccopyright 2019  axiii, 209 pages :bcolor illustrations ;c28 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier1 aReference shelf ;vvolume 91, number 3  aH.W. Wilson.2 a10-A.  aDiscusses the history of arms trading in the United States.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.2 aPreface -- History -- Risk and Reward: The History of Arms Trading in the United States -- A World of Weapons: Historians Shape Scholarship on Arms Trading -- Where Did Iran Get Its Military Arms over the Last 70 Years? -- "Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms -- Let's Talk about George H. W. Bush's Role in the Iran-Contra Scandal -- How British Businesses Helped the Confederacy Fight the American Civil War -- As the US Entered World War I, American Soldiers Depended on Foreign Weapons Technology -- Losing by "Winning": America's Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria -- Economics of the Arms Trade -- Checks and Balances: The Economy of Warfare -- How the Arms Trade Is Used to Secure Access to Oil -- The Global Arms Trade Is Booming: Buyers Are Spoiled for Choice -- Defense Firms Say Trump's Saudi Arms Deal Will Create 500 American Jobs, While Trump Claimed as Many as 500,000 -- Trump to Unleash More Global Arms Sales -- Arming the World: Inside Trump's "Buy American" Drive to Expand Weapons Exports -- Why Congress Supports Saudi Arms Sales -- Arms and Foreign Policy -- Guns and Diplomats: The Arms Trade and Foreign Policy -- The Trump Administration Has a Plan to Compete with Russia and China over Weapon Sales -- After Khashoggi, US Arms Sales to the Saudis Are Essential Leverage -- US Remains Top Arms Exporter, but Russia Is Nipping at Its Heels -- U.S. Approves New Military Sale to Taiwan, Drawing China's Ire -- U.S. Policy in the Arabian Peninsula: An Evaluation -- Why Military Assistance Programs Disappoint: Minor Tools Can't Solve Major Problems -- America Needs to Sell More Weapons -- Japan Wants Cruise Missiles (and That Should Terrify China or North Korea).2 aThe New Iron Curtain: Russian Missile Defense Challenges U.S. Air Power -- The Uneasy Co-Existence of Arms Exports and Feminist Foreign Policy -- The Wrong Hands: Arms Deals, War, and Terror -- The Wrong Hands -- Sale of U.S. Arms Fuels the Wars of Arab States -- Time to Rethink America's Vast Arms Deals -- Fired Up Over Firearms: How Do Export Controls Relate to 3-D Printing of Guns? -- Pentagon Loses Track of $500 Million in Weapons, Equipment Given to Yemen -- Can Selling Weapons to Oppressive and Violent States Ever Be Justified? -- American Weapons in the Wrong Hands -- The Human Cost -- The Human Dimension: Arms Trades and Human Rights -- How U.S. Guns Sold to Mexico End Up with Security Forces Accused of Crime and Human Rights Abuses -- Ukraine: US Arms Sales Making Big Business Money While Ordinary People Pay the Price -- U.S. Points Finger, and Arms Exports, at Human Rights Abusers -- Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply -- Trump Will Fuel War across World by Increasing U.S. Global Arms Sales -- Arms Sales to Saudi "Illicit" Due to Civilian Deaths in Yemen: Campaigners -- Trump's Arms Exports Rules Will Undermine US Security and Risk Human Rights Abuses -- Bibliography -- Websites -- Index. 0aArms transferszUnited StatesxHistoryy21st century. 0aMilitary assistance, AmericanxHistoryy21st century. 0aUnited StatesxForeign relationsxHistory. 0aUnited StatesxMilitary policyxHistoryy21st century. 0aDefense industriesxHistory. 7aArms transferszUnited StatesxHistory.2sears 7aAmerican military assistancexHistory.2sears 7aUnited StatesxForeign relationsxHistory.2sears 7aMilitary policyzUnited StatesxHistory.2sears 7aDefense industryxHistory.2sears 0aReference shelf ;vvolume 91, number 3.40uhttps://online.salempress.com/doi/book/10.3331/RSJND19