Title: And weapons for all /
Authors: Hartung, William D.
Publisher: HarperCollins,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Arms transfers United States; United States Military policy.
Abstract: In this provocative indictment of the U.S. arms trade, William D. Hartung reveals the greed, deception, and misguided thinking that fuel weapons sales abroad, poisoning our foreign policy and undermining our democratic institutions.
Contents: 1. The $134 Billion Question -- 2. The Nixon Doctrine: Roots of the Arms Sales Addiction -- 3. Congress Steps In -- 4. The Carter Policy: Why Not Restraint? -- 5. Reagan's Supply Side Foreign Policy -- 6. The Reagan Doctrine: Arming Anticommunist Rebels -- 7. Bush Policy: Institutionalizing Arms Sales Promotion -- 8. The Permanent Arms Supply Network (I): The Corporate Arms Merchants -- 9. The Permanent Arms Supply Network (II): Middlemen, Dealers, and the Secret Trade -- 10. The Middle East: Bottomless Market, Endless War? -- 11. Who Armed Iraq? -- 12. Selling Out: The Korean Connection and the New Dynamics of the Arms Trade -- 13. A New Policy?