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• July 22, 2019 Disappearing Transparency in U.S. Arms Sales A recent article by SAM Director, Christina Arabia, explains how the already difficult task of scouring disparate U.S. government documents for information vital to SAM's…
• July 22, 2019 Egypt: Six years after the coup, what has US military assistance bought us? July 3rd marked the sixth anniversary of the 2013 coup in Egypt, which ousted the now deceased President Mohammed Morsi. Despite years…
• June 28, 2019 Security Assistance in Focus: Burkina Faso’s Counterterrorism Company In the second of SAM's Security Assistance in Focus Series, we profile on the Department of Defense's (DoD) support to Burkina Faso's…
• June 23, 2019 Security Assistance in Focus: Lebanon’s Counter-Sabotage Regiment SAM is happy to introduce the first in its Security Assistance in Focus Series, which will highlight key U.S. security assistance programs…
• June 17, 2019 A Scathing Rebuke of Trump’s Arms Sales to the Gulf Could be a Turning Point Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, R. Clarke Cooper, endured two hours of withering questions and stinging criticisms from a bipartisan…
• June 5, 2019 How Trump is Sidestepping Congressional Oversight for Commercial Arms Sales
• June 5, 2019 How Trump is Sidestepping Congressional Oversight for Government Arms Sales With President Trump invoking an obscure emergency provision in the Arms Export Control Act to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia and the…
• June 5, 2019 President Trump Expedites Arms to Saudi Arabia & the UAE This factsheet illustrates the scale and nature of Foreign Military and Direct Commercial Sales that President Trump is proposing to sell Saudi…
• May 17, 2019 The Rocky U.S.-Pakistan Security Relationship Since 9/11, Pakistan has been one of the largest recipients of U.S. security aid. The strategic border it shares with Afghanistan as…
• April 4, 2019 Trends in Major U.S. Arms Sales in 2018: The Trump Record – Rhetoric Versus Reality A new report from the Security Assistance Monitor project of the Center for International Policy found that the Trump administration made $78.8…