Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1991-1998 (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Aug. 4, 1999 |
| Report Number |
RL30275 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Richard F. Grimmett, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
Summary:
This report is prepared annually to provide unclassified quantitative data on conventional arms transfers to developing nations by the United States and foreign countries for the preceding eight calendar years. This report covers the years from 1991-1998. It also provides some general data on worldwide conventional arms transfers for the same time period, but the principal focus is on data illustrating the levels of such arms transfers by major weapons suppliers to nations in the developing world. Data on deliveries by key suppliers of fourteen categories of conventional weapons systems is also included for 1991-1998. The data in the report show how global patterns of conventional arms transfers have changed in the post-Cold War and post-Persian Gulf War years. Despite world changes since the Cold War's end, the developing nations continue to be the primary focus of foreign transfer activity by conventional weapons suppliers.
