The Guardian had an interesting dispatch from this year’s Defense Systems and Equipment Show: Two companies were ejected last night from Britain’s biggest arms fair for promoting leg irons for prisoners and battlefield captors. BCB International, a British-based firm, and…
The fact sheet released by the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs on the defense trade treaty recently signed by President Bush and Australia’s Prime Minister Howard provides few details on what the treaty says. Fortunately, a detailed FAQ on…
Last Friday, the UAE announced it’s long-promised export law. The new law not only forbids the unlicensed export of “strategic goods” including military hardware, CBW precursors and dual use items but also creates a catch-all exception that would allow the…
An article in today’s edition of the Financial Times reports on a press conference given yesterday by John Rood, Assistant Secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, where Rood discussed the recently signed Defense Trade Cooperation…
Amnesty International, according to a letter it sent last Friday to the President of the Council of Ministers of the E.U., has evidence that India intends to transfer two military helicopters to the Myanmar military. The Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopters…