Chapter 288

The report of the Amsterdam Institute for Peace also pointed out that the Ottoman Empire came in second, except that Britain almost occupied the arms purchases of the Confederate States from the Civil War.

In the past five years, the Ottoman Empire has also purchased more than 3 million pounds of arms from the United Kingdom, with an average of more than 600,000 pounds per year, of which warships occupy the majority. At present, London is building more than 20,000 tons of warships for the Ottoman Empire.

There are other European countries such as Italy, Belgium, Chile, Denmark, Sweden and even the Tsarist Russian Empire, all of which are customers of British arms dealers.

According to the tracking of the Amsterdam Institute for Peace, the final calculated value shows that the main channels of British arms dealers in the past five years are inter-governmental sales, and the other is the direct overseas commercial sales of private contractors authorized by the British cabinet government.

The report states that the UK has sold more than £30 million in arms over the past five years.

The second place was neither France nor Prussia, but unexpectedly, it was the Netherlands.

The report stated that arms transfers and trade with the Dutch Ministry of Defense are important tools of Dutch foreign policy. , Denmark and other countries shot weapons.

If the recent signing of the steamship battleship with the Commonwealth of Millikin succeeds, the Commonwealth of Millikin will rise from the fourth place in Dutch arms sales to the No. 1 export destination country.

Even the Netherlands will break a record in annual arms sales this year.

The report also lists estimated values.

In the past five years, the Russian Empire has purchased more than 2 million pounds of arms from the Netherlands, Argentina more than 1.7 million pounds, Sweden more than 1.5 million pounds, Colombia and Venezuela are similar, both are between 1 million pounds, and the Kingdom of Siam is around 800,000 pounds. .

The remaining Greece and Denmark are both around £500,000, the latter only starting to be equipped with Dutch weapons in the past two years.

In the past five years, the Netherlands has sold about 9 million pounds of weapons.

The remaining third arms sales exporting countries are France, 8 million pounds, Prussia 7 million (the scope of Prussia's previous arms sales included other small countries before reunification with Germany), the United States of America 4.8 million...

The report points out that when these countries sell, they will fully consider various factors such as political, military, economic and end-use.

This report has opened up the arms trade network all over the world at once, which is very important for the analysis of the situation of various countries.

Therefore, countries are beginning to assess their military capabilities and potential according to this report.

The Netherlands, for the first time in this report, became the second largest arms sales country, and suddenly became the focus of the world.

Even in terms of military innovation potential, because the Netherlands has become the third country with the ability and technology to manufacture steam battleships, and because it has the latest world-leading technologies such as rifles and firearms, semi-automatic rifles are the first to emerge from the Netherlands.

In addition, the Netherlands has never lost wars in South Africa, Mozambique, Congo and Angola in the past few years, and the Netherlands has strong industrial and technological capabilities, leading the world in per capita income economy and education capabilities, which have attracted worldwide attention.

The report mentioned that the Netherlands ranks fourth in terms of military equipment innovation capability, second only to the United Kingdom, France, and Prussia. Convincing.

The comprehensive military potential of the Netherlands is also ranked second only to the five major powers of the United Kingdom, France, Tsarist Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary, and it is tied for sixth place with Spain and the Ottoman Empire.

Although the opponents think that it is a bit high, the population is only half of Spain and other countries, but those who agree that the Netherlands can even be comparable to the Ottoman Empire, after all, a large population is not necessarily a potential, and the Netherlands now has two thousand East Indies and African indigenous people. There is no shortage of population.

Moreover, the Mongolian Iron Cavalry would not have conquered so many countries in Eurasia, and hit Europe from Asia.

Because of this report, the streets of the world are filled with the meaning of this report.

To this end, in his speech to the Dutch Senate, His Majesty King Willem IV of the Netherlands asked the Dutch cabinet to make overseas arms sales not only an important goal of national security and foreign policy, but also a major opportunity to promote innovation and create jobs.

William IV also took several wars as an example, and pointed out that the development of the British ICBC is inseparable from the military development technology detonated by the war, and then combined with the private industry, and the politics of allies is the original development basis for arms export. The British military industry, which is based on overseas arms sales, ushered in a boom.

William IV also pointed out that in the report of the Amsterdam Institute for Peace, since 1861, the top five military enterprises in the world, except for the William Arms Company, a subsidiary of the William Group of the Netherlands, occupy the third place, and the other top four are in the UK. Not even France.

To this end, William IV also pointed out that the Dutch arms dealers should only focus on the interior of the country, and should also learn from Britain and put them overseas.

The continuous development of British military enterprises is closely related to the interaction between enterprises, the government and the House of Representatives. According to the report, in the past 20 years, the British military industry has spent as much as £1 million on lobbying Buckingham Palace and Downing Street in London in order to influence British defense policy and make its own weapons useful.

These arms dealers also have lobby groups in other countries, lobbying for their arms business, with overseas lobbying fees exceeding 100,000 pounds a year.

The political and business revolving door in British society is constantly promoting the development of the military industry. After the British Tories and Whigs and other political leaders stepped down, they were directly applied for military industrial enterprises, using resources such as personal connections to influence the British government. While seeking business for the export of these military industrial enterprises, he also made a lot of money from it.

Spink, a retired senior British official interviewed by the Amsterdam Institute for Peace, pointed out to the report that ~www.mtlnovel.com~ over the past few decades the British army, industry, the House of Commons and the House of Lords complex and British newspapers, Academia and intelligence are linked together. The British Ministry of Defense is led by these capitals, which has led to the United Kingdom becoming more and more dependent on defense spending. He warned that although it is very good for the United Kingdom to be strong in the British military industry at present, if it is for economic development, it is easy to run away. partial, because of the call for the UK to change course again and get the ship to go in the right direction.

"It's not right that we can't reproduce the road that the UK has gone through at the feet of the Netherlands. The Netherlands has to walk at its own pace, not learn from others. Of course, we have to learn from the good."

William IV was in the Senate. Looking at the senators below, everyone had a solemn expression on their faces. He said seriously: "Although He has achieved some small achievements so far, he can be proud, but he must not be complacent. After all, in the Netherlands, there are still pressures such as the United Kingdom, France, Prussia, the Tsarist Empire, the Ottoman Empire, etc. Even Spain, to be honest, it is difficult for us to defeat each other. This is because we need to judge the situation and use it to serve the Netherlands. When you grasp your own direction and seek national interests, you need to understand yourself and understand the operations of others."

Although William IV said so in the Senate, the military industry of William Collection, because of this exposure, has become the incense pot of various countries, especially those small countries in South America, which William IV did not expect.