White House executive order aims to speed arm sales, cut red tape
The order includes a directive for State and DoD to compile a list of “priority partners” and “priority end items” for transfer.
The order includes a directive for State and DoD to compile a list of “priority partners” and “priority end items” for transfer.
The United States signed off on arms exports worth $192.3 billion over the past year, a full 13 percent increase from the previous year -- even as the Trump administration keeps pushing hard to sell more weapons, more quickly, to more allies overseas.