{"id":11984,"date":"2023-05-20T03:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11984"},"modified":"2023-05-20T03:11:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T08:11:18","slug":"us-to-accelerate-weapons-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11984","title":{"rendered":"US to accelerate weapons sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US State Department is seeking to expedite arms sales amid a new\u00a0\u201cage of heightened strategic competition\u201d\u00a0and soaring global tensions, according to a new ten-point plan released on Thursday.<br>Although the US government authorized weapons sales and training\u00a0averaging $45.8 billion each year between 2019 and 2022,\u00a0\u201cthe time has come to reassess and adapt security cooperation to meet new and emerging challenges,\u201d\u00a0the State Department declared, pointing to the ongoing Ukraine conflict and tensions in the Indo-Pacific.<br>According to a Wall Street Journal report on Thursday, the new program comes as the State Department scrambles to rectify delays in sales to foreign militaries, caused by a\u00a0\u201crisk-averse and sluggish\u201d\u00a0system.<br>These issues have resulted in fears that some of America\u2019s partners could start\u00a0\u201cshopping for arms from some of America\u2019s adversaries, such as Russia and China,\u201d\u00a0the WSJ wrote, citing unnamed US officials.<br>As part of its plan, the department seeks in particular to\u00a0\u201csave time on the policy approval process\u201d\u00a0by anticipating the demands of Washington\u2019s international partners based on the prior requirements of their regional neighbors. Citing the officials, the WSJ noted that the reform intends to make the system more flexible by moving away from selling American weapons on a case-by-case basis.<br>Another point of the plan is to change the State Department\u2019s approach to notifying Congress, by\u00a0\u201cprioritizing consultations on critical potential arms transfers\u201d\u00a0and sharpening policies in the field of exporting US drones abroad.<br>Last year, as global tensions soared amid the Ukraine conflict and the \u2018Taiwan\u2019 stand-off between Beijing and Washington, US foreign military sales to other governments skyrocketed by 49%, reaching some $205 billion, according to the State Department.<br>The US also emerged as the main source of weapons for Ukraine amid its conflict with Russia, having committed some $37 billion in security assistance to Kiev. In recent months, however, US media have reported that Washington was running low on several types of weapons and ammunition as the military industry was struggling to keep up with demand.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/576581-us-bolster-weapons-sales\/\">Rt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department is seeking to expedite arms sales amid a new\u00a0\u201cage of heightened strategic competition\u201d\u00a0and soaring global tensions, according to a new ten-point plan released on Thursday.Although the US government authorized weapons sales and training\u00a0averaging $45.8 billion each year between 2019 and 2022,\u00a0\u201cthe time has come to reassess and adapt security cooperation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[7059],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-accelerated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11986,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions\/11986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}