News Categories

Murphy's Law: May 26, 2000

Archives

A new report by the French parliament has shocked the French people and government by stating that French arms exports do not provide the financial benefits claimed by the government, and in fact many weapons are sold at a loss simply to maintain jobs in the French defense industry. The report also noted that selling large numbers of weapons overseas does not in fact reduce the cost paid by the French military for those same weapons.--Stephen V Cole

X

ad

Help keep us a float!

Your support helps us keep our ship a float. We appreciate anyway you chose to help out. Visit us daily, subscribe, donate, and tell your friends.

You can support us in the following ways:

  1. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos.
  2. You can contribute to the health of StrategyPage.
  3. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on X.
Subscribe   Contribute   Close