Arms exports from United States to Iraq 2000-2013

Arms exports from United States to Iraq 2000-2013

This is a list of all the arms trades made in contracts from the US government to the Iraqi Government.


#Ordered/Designation/Weapon description/Year of order/Year(s) of deliverie/ #delivered/Comments

8 Avenger Mobile SAM system 2012 2013 - 2013 (3) Part of $105 m deal; 'ISFF' aid
5 ISR King Air-350 AGS aircraft 2007 2008 - 2008 (5) Part of $132 m deal
5 ISR King Air-350 AGS aircraft 2008 2010 - 2011 (5)
16 Bell-205/UH-1 Huey-2 Helicopter 2005 2007 - 2007 (16) Iraqi UH-1H rebuilt to Huey-2
7 Comp Air-7SL Light aircraft 2004 2004 - 2004 7 Financed by UAE; assembled from kits in UAE
20 Bell-206/OH-58 Light helicopter 2007 2008 - 2009 20 Incl 10 ex-US OH-58C and 10 second-hand Bell-
206B version; aid
3 Bell-407 Light helicopter 2009 2010 - 2010 3 $6.9 m deal; T-407 trainer version
24 Bell-407 Light helicopter 2009 2012 - 2013 24 $60 m deal; armed version; option on 26 more
3 Bell-407 Light helicopter 2010 2011 - 2011 (3)
(11) Cessna-208 Caravan Light transport ac 2005 2007 - 2009 (11) Including 3 AC-208B armed version
1 King Air Light transport ac 2007 2007 - 2007 1 Part of $160 m deal; King Air-350ER version
1 King Air Light transport ac 2008 2010 - 2010 (1) King Air-350ER version
15 PC-9 Trainer aircraft 2009 2009 - 2010 15 Part of $257 m deal; T-6A version
12 Cessna-172/T-41 Trainer/light ac 2007 2007 - 2009 12 Option on 6 more
3 C-130E Hercules Transport aircraft 2004 2005 - 2005 3 Ex-US; aid
6 C-130J-30 Hercules Transport aircraft 2009 2012 - 2013 6 $293 m deal
43 ASV-150/M-1117 APC 2004 2004 - 2005 (43) $50 m deal; incl 2 CP version
(19) ASV-150/M-1117 APC 2004 2005 - 2005 19
378 Cougar APC 2006 2006 - 2007 (378) $180 m deal; Iraqi Light Armored Vehicle (ILAV) or
Badger version
20 Cougar APC 2006 2007 - 2007 (20) $7.8m deal; Iraqi Light Armoured Vehicle (ILAV)
version
50) M-113 APC 2006 2006 - 2007 (50) Ex-US; aid
27 Cougar APC 2007 2008 - 2008 (27) Iraqi Light Armoured Vehicle (ILAV) version
(122) ASV-150/M-1117 APC 2008 2008 - 2009 (122)
20 M-113 APC 2008 2010 - 2010 (20) Probably ex-US; incl 12 M-577A2 Command Post
version
09 Cougar APC 2009 2010 - 2010 109 $59 m deal; Iraqi Light Armoured Vehicle (ILAV)
version
80 ASV-150/M-1117 APC 2010 2011 - 2013 (80) $85 m deal; incl 8 command post version
(834) M-113 APC 2010 2011 - 2012 (834) Ex-US; M-113A2 version; modernized before
delivery; incl command post, mortar-carrier,
ambulance and other versions

What is the answer to Detroit?

I was watching a show Forgotten Planet and one particular episode caught my attention. It was an episode on Detroit, its heyday and its demise. For a long time Detroit was seen as the industrial mecca in the US, turning out automobiles, steel works, mining operations and one of the country's best school systems. But all of this was to come to an end in the wake of economic policies and disastrous government programs. Detroit now sits in ruin. So what would it take to return this city to the forefront of production and the ability for its citizens to prosper? Is the answer to just get government out of the way?

In an article written in 2013 Patrick Barron makes his case for a "Free Detroit".  His idea is to rid the city of all regulations and all taxation. Barron asks, "What if Detroit became a free city in which government provided for public safety, honest courts, protection of property rights, and little else? Might not unabated free enterprise take hold as it always has in America?" adding next, "All that Detroit really needs is economic freedom and secure property rights. Give Detroit its freedom from all manner of government, including the federal government. Declare Detroit a free city. (You can rest assured, Detroit, that America will come to your rescue if those bloodthirsty Canadians attack!) In other words, no one would pay any federal taxes whatsoever or be subject to any federal regulations whatsoever. Wouldn’t it be nice not to pay federal taxes, not even Social Security and Medicare taxes? Do the same with Michigan taxes. No taxes BUT also no federal or state aid either."

How can they have it both ways? You cannot allow zero taxation and have a funded government, even miniscule government compared to the current model.

The rest of the article reads pretty much how one can envision any free marketer article going. Cooperative experiences between citizens without the need for bureaucratic red tape, restrictions licenses, regulations and of course the end to the state sponsored welfare state.

All of these things are in line with the thinking of most Laissez Faire proponents, and of course with most who are familiar with the great Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig von Mises.

What Detroit has become is, in large part, due to the enormity of its city government, the State Government and helped along by the Federal Government. Programs that were meant to help the poor or working poor were in fact reducing them down to a life of dependency, and of course when the government finally runs out of other people money to give away, catastrophe ensues. The lesson to be learned from its fall is that there is such a thing as too much government.

But what is the answer to get it going again?

As Mr. Barron states it may lie in doing the complete opposite of the cause.

In response to Barron's writings on Detroit Chief Investment Officer of Universa Investments LP Mark Spitznagle writes, "Detroit can correct its past public-sector ineptitude and abuses by unleashing the private sector’s vast potential, rooted in the metropolitan region’s vibrant entrepreneurial and manufacturing culture, skilled workforce, and a robust technology base nurtured by world-class institutions like the University of Michigan. The city’s position on an important border crossing and access to an enormous fresh-water supply from the Great Lakes, not to mention the business community’s unrelenting support, enhance its prospects further."

Echoing the late Murray Rothbard, such a collapse “is the ‘recovery’ process, and far from being an evil scourge, is the necessary and beneficial return, says Spitznagle.

I think Detroit can be the greatest study of if and how free market and Austrian economic principles and policies can work. Whether it succeeds or fails will be the greatest milestone in the sake of accepted economic means to ends.