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The United States sells arms to almost any country willing to pay for them, but many recipients are risky, unstable, undemocratic, and liable to misuse the weapons. Cato defense and foreign policy studies policy analyst Jordan Cohen explains why the U.S. government sells arms to risky countries, why it doesn\'t give the U.S. strategic leverage, the costs and consequences of U.S. security assistance to Ukraine, the problem of cluster munitions, U.S. support for the Nigerian military (which recently executed a coup d\'\\xe9tat), and how to reform U.S. arms sales policies. 

Show Notes

• Jordan Cohen bio
• Jordan Cohen and A. Trevor Thrall, \\u201c2022 Arms Sales Risk Index,\\u201d Cato Institute policy analysis no. 953, July 18, 2023.
• Jordan Cohen and Jonathan Ellis Allen, \\u201cWhen our Weapons Go Missing,\\u201d Reason, July 31, 2023.
• Barry R. Posen, \\u201cUkraine\\u2019s Implausible Theories of Victory,\\u201d Foreign Affairs, July 8, 2023.
• Jordan Cohen and Jonathan Ellis Allen, \\u201cCluster Munitions May Win a Battle but not Ukraine\\u2019s War,\\u201d Inkstick Media, July 13, 2023.
• Jordan Cohen and Jonathan Ellis Allen, \\u201cDid the Pentagon Just Make a $3 Billion Accounting Error \\u2013 or Did It Do Something Even Worse?\\u201d Reason, May 19, 2023.
• Jordan Cohen, \\u201cCoups Are Just An Arms (Sale) Length Away: US Weapons Equip Niger\\u2019s Military,\\u201d Cato at Liberty, August 3, 2023.
• Jordan Cohen, \\u201cDeal or No Deal: Explaining Congressional Restrictions on Arms Transfers,\\u201d PhD diss (George Mason University, 2023).
• Jon Hoffman, Jordan Cohen, and Jonathan Ellis Allen, \\u201cBiden Steamrolls toward Disaster in the Middle East,\\u201d The Hill, August 2, 2023.

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