Arms Sales Quotes
Romania had a mediocre small arms manufactureing capability but their weapons were not in great demand by governments around the world. However, there were illegal insurgent groups in many countries who would pay hard currency for arms that would b smuggled into various countries. Governments like Romania were not supposed to sell to these groups, but Romania did.
Allen had expressed the concern of the United States that Egypt had purchased Russian arms and was falling into the Russian camp in the Cold War. The United States could not sell arms to Egypt because they wanted to use them to attack Israel.
There were more than 100 million of his gun distributed over the world and his invention has been the instrument by which more people have been killed than any other weapon.
Ironically Germany which has publicly usually been so sensitive and responsible after their massive chemical extermination in the concentration camps of WWII, was embarrassed by their own private companies which, to make money, sold the chemicals and the technology to the then worst murderer in the world.
Military robots including drones are very inexpensive as military hardware goes. And like other hi-technology devices, the prices go down steadily as volume grows. Almost any government can afford to buy military robots from the U. S., France, Russia or Israel. As a result, there can be many more nations who can have a modern military, even if small. Thereafter, they can conduct modern warfare readily.
A few years later, the Iranian revolution transformed our ally to whom we had sold arms. Then Iran-Contra reopened the issue of arms and Iran.
After Henry VIII changed England to a Protestant nation and left the Roman Catholic Church, the Catholic countries of Europe, England’s traditional trading partners, were not as available as before. The English Economy was in great danger. Queen Elisabeth I however initiated policies to turn East for new markets and trading partners and found munitions a great export area. Since the Catholic Church was boycotting England, she seized their property and used much of it to capitalize and provide raw martial for her new industry.
By 1915 America was selling arms to the allies although we were "neutral." However the allies soon ran low on money to pay for more arms, and Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, maintained a policy of no American loans for arms sales. The Treasury Secretary wrote to the President asking for a reversal of policy. The ban on loans was shortly lifted.
