Word: materiel
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Besides, a lack of materiel is only part of Saigon's military problem. Even in the days when it had virtually unlimited ordnance, transport and firepower, ARVN was never as effective on the battlefield as were the Communist armies. Even today, though it no longer enjoys an overwhelming superiority in firepower, ARVN still outnumbers the Communists by some 3 to 1. Incompetent leadership, corruption, profiteering by officers and low pay for enlisted men often sapped the strength of Saigon's forces. True, because of the American involvement, Saigon has a far better fighting force than it had earlier...
...series, assorted MIG fighter-bombers and the deadly accurate SAM antiaircraft missiles. In addition, the Kremlin for decades has shipped massive quantities of war materiel to the Warsaw Pact states and to the armies of North Korea and North Viet Nam. Dozens of other Third World countries admire Soviet weapons: MIGS, AK-47 automatic rifles (widely regarded as the world's best combat rifle) and armored cars are highly prized...
...years both France and Britain have been vying for third place as weapons purveyors, concentrating on the same markets?the Middle East, Latin America and their former African colonies. Last year the French clearly pulled ahead of the British, selling $3 billion in war materiel to some 80 nations, ranging from submarines for the navies of Spain, Portugal, Pakistan and South Africa to daggers for Tunisian commando units. The best-selling French items: various models of the Mirage supersonic fighters, the agile and swift AMX tanks, Alouette helicopters and radar-guided Exocet antiship missiles...
...supersonic warplanes in Latin America, except for Cuba's Soviet-supplied MIGs. For the next five years, the European arms salesmen shuttling across the Atlantic to woo South American customers were virtually unchallenged by U.S. competition. In 1973, after Europe had already sold more than $2 billion in war materiel to Latin America, the Nixon Administration gave in to the pleas of U.S. defense industrialists and ended the embargo...
...average annual rise by volume in imports by OPEC countries. But as the volume of imports grows, such a rate might well become increasingly difficult to sustain, especially for countries with primitive domestic economies. Armaments made up about one-tenth of imports last year. Shipments of war materiel cannot continue to increase -unless the selling nations are willing to take even graver risks that a conflagration will erupt in the Middle East...