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by | Jun 17, 2022

Thomas C. Frohlich

24/7 Wall Street

The United States is notably not just by far the world’s largest military force, but also by far the largest supplier of arms.

As the source of approximately 36 percent of the world’s military exports, the United States is by far the largest exporter of weapons, according to the latest report on major arms export volumes published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on March 11.

The U.S. has been both the largest exporter of military supplies and the country with the largest military expenditure since the SIPRI started its database in the early 1990s. The U.S.’s outsized share of world arms exports has also increased over the past five years since the previous five-year period through 2013, when 30 percent of world arms exports came from the United States.

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