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Dasa Pechackova

Sýrie padá do války, dluh Česku ještě stihla splatit - Aktuálně.cz - 0 views

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2011 čr autor: martin novák sýrie bašár asad tanky tank t-55 letadlo l-29 dluh jan kavan miroslav kalousek

shared by Dasa Pechackova on 31 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Peto Tkac on 31 Jan 13
     
    píšu tam o "stokách L-29" ale asi myslia "L-39"
Peto Tkac

Global Arms Markets as Seen Through the Syrian Lens | Stratfor - 2 views

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svět 2013 stratfor.com autor: scott stewart červen 2013 anglicky sýrie

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  • Because of this durability, weapons provided to the anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan in the 1980s are still being used against coalition troops in Afghanistan.
  • Weapons provided by the United States and the Soviet Union to rebels and governments during Central America's civil wars are still making their way into the arsenals of Mexican drug cartels, and M-40 recoilless rifles provided by the United States to the government of Libya before Moammar Gadhafi's 1969 coup proved to be a very effective weapons system in the battle of Misurata, and today are being shipped from Libya to the rebels in Syria.
  • ammunition is also an important facet of the global arms trade
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  • while weapons are durable, they can only remain functional if sufficient supplies of the appropriate ammunition are available
  • Weapons are also fungible, or interchangeable.
  • Weapons are also goods that tend to retain their value and are easily converted to cash.
  • Buying weapons from a place where there is an oversupply and then selling them in a place where there is a heavy demand can be highly lucrative.
  • In addition to cash, guns can also be exchanged for commodities such as diamonds, drugs and even sugar.
  • There are three general types of markets for arms. The first is the legal arms market, where weapons are bought and sold in accordance with national and international law.
  • second arms market is that involving illicit, or gray arms.
  • Gray arms transactions involve a deceptive legal arms transaction in which legally purchased arms are shifted into the hands of someone other than the purported, legal recipient.
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