{"id":13785,"date":"2012-08-27T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=13785"},"modified":"2012-08-27T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T12:36:41","slug":"a-new-record-66-3-billion-in-us-arms-sales-abroad-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/08\/a-new-record-66-3-billion-in-us-arms-sales-abroad-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Record: $66.3 Billion in US Arms Sales Abroad in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/f15.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13786\" title=\"DESERT SHIELD\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/f15.jpg?resize=320%2C210\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>Obama Claims 78 Percent of World&#8217;s Market<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>by Jason Ditz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Heavily backed by the US government, US arms makers are a serious growth industry, not only providing weapons to America\u2019s own enormous military for its assorted adventures, but capturing the vast majority of the foreign arms market on the planet as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">El<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/27\/world\/middleeast\/us-foreign-arms-sales-reach-66-3-billion-in-2011.html?_r=1&amp;hp\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">new figures released<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> in a study for Congress show several records being smashed in 2011, with the US selling $66.3 billion in weapons abroad, a record itself, but also by far the largest single year increase ever, over the $21.4 billion in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The sales amounted to about 78 percent of all foreign arms sales on the entire planet. The second place arms dealer nation is Russia, which sold less than $5 billion themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Much of the arms sales were to Saudi Arabia and other members of the GCC, which have been heavily increasing their military spending in recent years, nominally to \u201ccombat Iran.\u201d The Saudi deals alone amounted to $33.4 billion, which by itself would have been the record for single largest year of arms sales by any nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/08\/26\/a-new-record-66-3-billion-in-us-arms-sales-abroad-in-2011\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Claims 78 Percent of World&#8217;s Market by Jason Ditz Heavily backed by the US government, US arms makers are a serious growth industry, not..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[229,197,226,199,269],"class_list":["post-13785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-economic-exploitation","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-iran","tag-saudi-arabia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DESERT_13785_45296.jpg?fit=320%2C210&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}