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In an article on the website “War on the Rocks,” David Des Roches, who served in various White House and Pentagon positions from 1996 to 2010, called the defense sales “more the ‘art of the packaging’ than the ‘art of the deal.’ ”
Congressional approval was already given during the Obama administration for $23.7 billion of the reported $110 billion sale, wrote Des Roches, now an associate professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University.
“The rest of the equipment Trump has offered,” as much as $86 billion, “could be denied by Congress,” he wrote. He noted in particular the most expensive item on the list: the Theater High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) system, which costs $13 billion for seven batteries and about $3.5 billion for upgraded and new Bradley fighting vehicles.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...7d1b22-4246-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html
In an article on the website “War on the Rocks,” David Des Roches, who served in various White House and Pentagon positions from 1996 to 2010, called the defense sales “more the ‘art of the packaging’ than the ‘art of the deal.’ ”
Congressional approval was already given during the Obama administration for $23.7 billion of the reported $110 billion sale, wrote Des Roches, now an associate professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University.
“The rest of the equipment Trump has offered,” as much as $86 billion, “could be denied by Congress,” he wrote. He noted in particular the most expensive item on the list: the Theater High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) system, which costs $13 billion for seven batteries and about $3.5 billion for upgraded and new Bradley fighting vehicles.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...7d1b22-4246-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html
