The Rise of Trump and Its Global Implications - Trump and the Theatre of Arms Acquisitions

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Bitzinger, Richard A.
• مؤلفون آخرون: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• التنسيق: Commentary
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2017
• الموضوعات: East Asia and Asia Pacific; Country and Region Studies
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84851; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42011

President-elect Trump has made a show of criticising the US arms industry for producing expensive weapons, particularly singling out the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. This is all just theatre, however, since he has few options other than continuing to buy from traditional US defence firms.