Canada
Sometimes Canada gets good press, and sometimes bad. The decision of the liberal government to continue a sale of armored vehicles to Saudia Arabia is turning into quite a political scandal. (LINK) Arms sales are fascinating precisely because of the highly political nature of these sales and the very real economic and security issues (domestically) that play into arms export decisions.
Nigeria
Nigeria has lost over $15 billion dollars due to arms acquisition corruption (LINK). I wrote about Russia's own fraud problem a few years ago with some nice graphs. Check it out (LINK)!
Russia
A good analysis of the effect of the economic crisis on Russia's military modernization process (LINK).
Another article examines problems within the Russian arms industry. Some of this stems from corruption, some from incompetence. (LINK)
On an unrelated (but not completely) note: more evidence that Russia is very concerned about the perceived legitimacy of its annexation of Crimea domestically (LINK). The political effects of the sanctions would be much worse if there wasn't a rally effect based on a widely-shared belief that Russia's actions were righteous and justified.
Sometimes Canada gets good press, and sometimes bad. The decision of the liberal government to continue a sale of armored vehicles to Saudia Arabia is turning into quite a political scandal. (LINK) Arms sales are fascinating precisely because of the highly political nature of these sales and the very real economic and security issues (domestically) that play into arms export decisions.
Nigeria
Nigeria has lost over $15 billion dollars due to arms acquisition corruption (LINK). I wrote about Russia's own fraud problem a few years ago with some nice graphs. Check it out (LINK)!
Russia
A good analysis of the effect of the economic crisis on Russia's military modernization process (LINK).
Another article examines problems within the Russian arms industry. Some of this stems from corruption, some from incompetence. (LINK)
On an unrelated (but not completely) note: more evidence that Russia is very concerned about the perceived legitimacy of its annexation of Crimea domestically (LINK). The political effects of the sanctions would be much worse if there wasn't a rally effect based on a widely-shared belief that Russia's actions were righteous and justified.
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