The UK arms trade Reviews

World War II pulled the USA out of the Great Depression. War is the easy way to boost an economy. Bush and Blair know this. So, selling lots of armaments, and having a long war on terror, could be the Bush-Blair plan for the next few years. Let's compare the past with the present. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ...  Read the complete review

Not only are we selling arms to India and Pakistan, the government sent a memento our boss to keep selling as theres no embargo, and business should hot up. In a word, we love war. Don?t threat, their not going to throw nukes at each other with the monsoon season and World Cup coming. Pakistan are Americas new allies and are taking advantage ...  Read the complete review

As the Enron scandal sweeps Americas ubiquitous white wall corridors of influence. Polished pristine waxed clean Pentagon floors echo to powerful footsteps as yet another third world poverty-stricken country is lined to be flattened to bury domestic bad news. One executive who knew too much has taken his life or someone has taken it for him. ...  Read the complete review

Blair came in to power talking of ethical foreign policies and more Caution on selling weapon to unstable third world countries. By September 11th he and his foreign secretaries had well and truly buried that idealism by arming the nasty Philippine government and any one else as admirably bad. Sierra Leone showed that we were more interested ...  Read the complete review

I am going to write under the assumption that mankind has basically had some war going on constantly since humanity began. Truthfully the historians can only find 45 years out of the past 3000 when there was not a major conflict being waged. One of my instructors at OCS told us that, and he said his job was to train us to be the best we could be ...  Read the complete review

You crazy brits have been going overboard with this whole cloning thing. I mean it is one thing to clone a few sheep but to read that you have a thriving arms business...well that is just sick. And why not legs or other body parts. Are arms easier to make? Seriously, well sort of...The UK like America has a significant part of thier ...  Read the complete review

Britain’s record abroad in selling arms is nothing short of despicable chaos. Their military excersize and excursions away from Blighty don’t bare any better in the UN bad book. A cooperative group of Kenyan farmers are currently running a legal action against the British army there. They are seeking compensation for years of ...  Read the complete review

Its an alarming coincidence that countries that supply y the West with oil also by most of the West’s and the Uks weapons. Everytime there is conflict in the region the share price of the struggling Marconi and Aerospace double. Imagine if you had bought a chunk when Plessey and Marconi and the like were on their knees not six months ...  Read the complete review

In a small corner of the Telegraph we can read just how hypocritical governments are when it comes to arms sales. With the world as unstable as ever I read today that an arms fair in East London has been entertaining China and Pakistan on a government invite. Two other banned countries were also there at the invite of the company running the ...  Read the complete review

With today’s horrific events in mind its probably no surprise that Great Britain and America are pretty much the course of this fundamentalism hatred. For years America has been demonizing Islam around the world and its no wonder they get annoyed. Bill Clinton is the main man responsible for this terrorist attack as he bomb them. Syria ...  Read the complete review

The arms industry in this country has been one of the biggest in the world, but has begun to shrink recently. When you travel around the world, landmines, radar equipment, aircraft, many types of missiles, anti-civilian death weapons, proliferate from the United Kingdom. Are we proud of this? Our export encourages warfare & hurt around ...  Read the complete review

I am just finishing my university placement year at BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace), one of the largest aerospace and defence companies in the World (employing over 100,000 people worldwide). Personally i have no qualms about working in the defence industry. As long as there are humans, religions, races, politics, borders, ...  Read the complete review

If we don't do it someone else will? Is that the total effort for an excuse for this evil? Well, OK, then let someone else do it. Let's set the example that we don't want to profit from other people's death. It may take a while for anyone to follow it, but so what? We won't be murderers. Has it never occurred to any of you ...  Read the complete review

Sorry if this is in the wrong section? From 1945-90, Communist Russia and the capitalist west confronted each other in what was known as the Cold War. It was called the cold because no actual fighting was done. Each side was convinced of its own superiority and attempted to spread its influence throughout Europe and the world. The Cold ...  Read the complete review

The issue of the arms trade is one which successive governments have avoided, taking the easy option of doing nothing to prevent the export of arms to nations we know full well are going to missuse them. The first priority of any government must be to acheive full employment. The UK exports more arms per head to the developing world than any ...  Read the complete review

Britain and America are the worlds biggest arms exporters and will do “anything” to keep that market leader tag to protect British muscle and jobs,one in ten people have jobs directly or indirectly related to the British arms trade. Robin Cook came in with the new government promising to clean up our bad rep in the arms industry, ...  Read the complete review

Why exactly does this country sell arms to evil dictators? For industry, so we're told, but surely we can live without industries that are designed to help nasty people kill other people. The stupidity of the situation becomes even more apparent when one considers some industries that are illegal in this country like making cannabis, the ...  Read the complete review

Like other animals man is territorial. Therefore I can understand that Britain (and most countries) want weapons to defend their territory. Companies are given contracts to develop weapons and obviously they want their product to sell. The problem with the arms trade however, is that some companies have no scruples. My husband ...  Read the complete review

As I have worked in and around the arms industry I perhaps can feed you a few alarming facts about the seedy way things are run and countries manipulated. Firstly Great Britain is in the top three world arms producers so war and death in foreign countries is a must if we are going to continue pushing for the top spot. Only America and France ...  Read the complete review

where do you want to go today? This is a brief exercise in vision logic; bear with me ...Back in the sixties, the idea of the Internet was born. Originally it was a tool for the cold war machine, and yet now the web has extended to become a global phenomenon. IF the governments of the world are developing technology that has yet to ...  Read the complete review