12/26/2015, "The U.S. Is Still No.1 at Selling Arms to the World," time.com, Denver Nicks
"The United States remains the world's preeminent exporter of arms, with more than 50 percent of the global weaponry market controlled by the United States as of 2014.
Arms
sales by the U.S. jumped 35 percent, or nearly $10 billion, to $36.2
billion in 2014, according to the Congressional Research Service report,
which analyzed the global arms market between 2007 and 2014.
Trailing
the U.S. in weapons receipts is Russia, with $10.2 billion in sales in
2014, followed by Sweden with $5.5 billion, France with $4.4 billion and
China with $2.2 billion, reports The New York Times.
The
top weapons buyer in 2014 was South Korea, a key American ally, which
has been squaring off with an increasingly belligerent North Korea in
recent years.
Iraq
was the second biggest weapons buyer, as the country seeks to build up
its military capacity following the withdrawal of the bulk of American
ground troops there. Brazil was the third biggest buyer, primarily of
Swedish aircraft."
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12/25/2015, "U.S. Foreign Arms Deals Increased nearly $10 billion in 2014," NY Times, Nicholas Fandos
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