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So why buy American weapons? Cooper said there are three reasons: quality, transparency, and accountability.
Here s What You Need to Remember: “The U.S. defense industry produces the best defensive equipment on the planet,” he claimed. In addition, U.S. arms export policy is not hidden. “Unlike the determinations made in Beijing or Moscow, our major foreign military and direct commercial sales are managed via a process whose policies are clear and transparent, and whose approvals are public.”
The U.S. government has a message for those nations that would buy Russian and Chines weapons: buyer beware.
“We have come a long way since the AK-47 became the ubiquitous symbol of Soviet-backed insurgencies from Southeast Asia to Africa,” R. Clarke Cooper, Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs, said during a speech at the Meridian International Center. “Today, Russia is working hard to foist variants of its S-400 air defense system around the world, wh