So much is bizarre with these arms sales. First is that Congress is well aware of this. Second, the vast majority of these sales go to developing countries that probably could spend the money in better ways. The most interesting part is to look at what we specifically sell to what country and then look at a map and see what we sell to their neighbors.
This report provides Congress with official, unclassified, quantitative data on conventional arms transfers to developing nations by the United States and foreign countries for the preceding eight calendar years for use in its policy oversight functions. All agreement and delivery data in this report for the United States are government to government Foreign Military Sales (FMS)
transactions. Similar data are provided on worldwide conventional arms transfers by all government suppliers, but the principal focus is the level of
arms transfers by major weapons supplying governments to nations in the developing world.
Developing nations continue to be the primary focus of foreign arms sales activity by weapons suppliers. During the years 2008-2011, the value of arms transfer agreements with developing nations comprised 80.39% of all such agreements worldwide. More recently, arms transfer agreements with developing nations constituted 80.92% of all such agreements globally from
2012-2015, and 81.70% of these agreements in 2015. Read more here.