In the third of SAM's Security Assistance in Focus Series, we profile on the Department of Defense's (DoD) support to Azerbaijan's State Border Service and State Customs Committee in FY2018 and FY2019.
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 Counterterrorism Company.
SAM is happy to introduce the first in its Security Assistance in Focus Series, which will highlight key U.S. security assistance programs and recipients. In this first issue, we focus on the Department of Defense's (DoD) support to Lebanon's elite Mukafaha Intervention Section.
This factsheet illustrates the scale and nature of Foreign Military and Direct Commercial Sales that President Trump is proposing to sell Saudi Arabia and the UAE withoug a Congressional reveiw process, weaponry that will likely make its way to the frontlines of the Yemeni conflict, described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
With President Trump invoking an obscure emergency provision in the Arms Export Control Act to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE over congressional objections, this factsheet illustrates how the President is circumventing traditional processes for government arms sales.