Effect of the Brazilian Arms Industry on U.S. Strategy

Abstract

Brazil's arms manufacturing capability has made great strides in the international market in the past 25 years. Thus far, the U.S. has only taken action to try and limit Brazil and their actions regarding their arms exports. This was done once because of human rights violations called out by the Carter Administration and once because of sales made by Brazilian defense firms to destabilizing countries such as Iraq, Libya, and Iran. The U.S. should see the Brazilian arms industries could provide a sharing of overhead costs and technologies. This could reduce overall unit prices for two countries' major weapon systems and help promote greater hemispheric stability. Brazil has announced they are open to this. It is up to the U.S. to seize the opportunity

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA283158

Entities

People

  • Steven D. Kahne

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Commerce
  • Composite Materials
  • Defense Industry
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Manufacturing
  • Middle East
  • Military Budgets
  • Money
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Regional Security
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
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