‘Optimist’ US State Department Predicts Arms Deal Surge – As Casualties Mount
Washington, DC (Sputnik) “I would anticipate — I am an optimist and a realist — that next year’s numbers will be higher than this year’s numbers,” Andrea Thompson, who oversees arms control at the State Department, told Defense News last week. Lockheed Hellfire missile. Thompson was referring to total weapons sales approved by the diplomatic corps in 2019. That’s saying a lot, considering that in the first half of fiscal year 2018, the US had already smashed its weapons sales total from the previous year, the State Department’s arms exporting agency said in July. According to the official, a new policy on conventional arms transfer…
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