When
a country wants to buy a weapon system made for the United States,
there's a very specific process that has to happen. They can't talk
directly to the manufacturer. The nation must use the Pentagon as an
intermediary, and Congress has to be alerted of the sale before it goes
down.
Yesterday, the Pentagon told congress of five huge sales that they
want to make. The countries are all in important regions — they border
Syria or Iran, or are in the south Pacific, or are fighting a vicious
cartel war. And each of them wants a lot of new firepower.
Here are just some of the sales that make the U.S. the world's biggest arms dealer:
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