WASHINGTON \u2013 The US hit $33.6 billion for foreign weapon sales in fiscal year 2016, down $13 billion from the record-setting FY 2015 number.
“We don\u2019t look at sales like a benchmark we\u2019re trying to capture. It\u2019s not a number we\u2019re trying to go for. Sales is really a fundamental result of foreign policy. We just have to understand what kind of workforce we\u2019re going to need to prosecute those sales,” Rixey said then. “It\u2019s nothing more than a tool for us to anticipate what we\u2019re going to anticipate and work with.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an example, Rixey pointed out that if the long-awaited sale of fighter jets to Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain had been cleared in 2016, as many had expected, the total would have eclipsed the record-setting year of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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