And Weapons for All

Name: And Weapons for All
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ISBN: 9780060190149

ISBN-10: 0060190140

ISBN-13: 9780060190149

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Authors: William D. Hartung

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Shows that attempts to achieve foreign policy objectives through weapons sales have become a staple of US diplomacy. The US role in the arming of Saddam Hussein is well known as are the unsavoury machinations behind the Iran/Contra affair.

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List price: $23.00
Publisher: World Policy Institute
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

William D. Hartung is Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. He is the author of And Weapons for All (HarperCollins 1994) and How Much Did You Make on the War, Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration (Nation Books 2005).

Acknowledgments
The $134 Billion Question	p. 1
The Nixon Doctrine: Roots of the Arms Sales Addiction	p. 21
Congress Steps In	p. 45
The Carter Policy: Why Not Restraint?	p. 63
Reagan's Supply Side Foreign Policy	p. 84
The Reagan Doctrine: Arming Anticommunist Rebels	p. 105
Bush Policy: Institutionalizing Arms Sales Promotion	p. 130
The Permanent Arms Supply Network (I): The Corporate Arms Merchants	p. 155
The Permanent Arms Supply Network (II): Middlemen, Dealers, and the Secret Trade	p. 176
The Middle East: Bottomless Market, Endless War?	p. 198
Who Armed Iraq?	p. 222
Selling Out: The Korean Connection and the New Dynamics of the Arms Trade	p. 248
A New Policy?	p. 272
Epilogue	p. 295
Notes	p. 299
Index	p. 329
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