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>From www.cdi.org/issues/Europe/yugoforce2.html
May 10, 1999
FACT SHEET: U.S. FORCES IN THE YUGOSLAV THEATER
<<Lots of facts and figures on strength in subject theatre>>
>From www.cdi.org/atpmain.html
While much attention is paid to the proliferation of the so-called
weapons of mass destruction, i.e. nuclear, biological, and chemical
weapons, it is the ordinary conventional weapons, such as AK-47's,
landmines, tanks, and fighter aircraft, which are responsible for the
vast majority of deaths and casualties in the world's conflicts. As
almost anyone who scans the news can tell, conventional weapons are
responsible for the death, wounding and uprooting of countless
numbers of people each year.
The Center for Defense Information's Arms Transfer Project provides
information and analysis on the multitude of issues surrounding the
global arms market. The project emphasizes the need to change current
US and international policies on arms transfers.
CDI's ultimate aim is to inform concerned individuals and policy-
makers in order to help limit and restrain the arms trade.
For more information or to submit any suggestions for this website,
please email Rachel Stohl.
>From www.cdi.org/atp/new.html
<<Begin excerpt>>
> Rachel Stohl, Research Analyst, Center for Defense Information
> Remarks at BASIC Seminar "Ammunition: A Choke Point for Light Weapons
> Control?" Based on the BASIC Research Report Deadly Rounds: Ammunition
> and Armed Conflict Brookings Institution Thursday September 10, 1998,
> 9 -10:30 am
>
>
> I'm pleased to be here today and talk to you all about the role of
> ammunition in small arms control. First I'd like to thank BASIC for
> convening this roundtable and I'd also like to thank some of those
> present for their help in the writing of my paper. David DeClerq and I
> were in constant communication as we both wrote our papers, and
> Virginia Ezell was instrumental in getting me down the right path to
> begin my research on the topic of ammunition. I'm also pleased to see
> so many US government officials present. Ammunition is a key component
> in the work that the US government is beginning on small arms.
>
> My report, and my research has primarily focused on small arms
> ammunition, i.e. ammunition with cartridges of caliber 15.5 mm or
> less, or ammunition that can be used in handguns, rifles (including
> semi-automatic and automatic assault rifles), and machine guns. I do
> want to mention at the outset that medium and large caliber
> ammunition, as well as grenades, mortars, and explosives, which are
> often lumped together in the generic term of ammunition are also
> valuable and important areas to study.
>
> The purpose of our discussion today is whether ammunition is a
> possible choke point for small arms control. I say, and I believe that
> my report has demonstrated that the answer is yes. Without ammunition,
> weapons are metal clubs and are useless. Without ammunition the kinds
> of conflict most often perpetrated by small arms can be stifled and
> limited.
<<End excerpt>>
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