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Power Problems • April 16, 2018 

# Arms Bizarre: Selling Weapons in the Age of Trump 

Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall are joined by Cato’s own Caroline Dorminey to discuss U.S. arms sales in the Trump era.

- Guest bio: [Caroline Dorminey](https://www.cato.org/people/caroline-dorminey)
- Caroline Dorminey and Trevor Thrall. “[Risky Business: the Role of Arms Sales in U.S. Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/risky-business-role-arms-sales-us-foreign-policy)”
- Paul Holden (ed.) [*Indefensible: Seven Myths That Sustain the Global Arms TradeM*](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo26259357.html)
- Jonathan Caverley. “[America’s Arms Sales Policy: Security Abroad, Not Jobs at Home](https://warontherocks.com/2018/04/americas-arms-sales-policy-security-abroad-not-jobs-at-home/)”
- Amnesty International. “[Iraq: Taking Stock of Arming the Islamic State](https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde14/2812/2015/en/)”

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##### [Caroline Dorminey](/people/caroline-dorminey)

Former Policy Analyst 

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##### [Emma Ashford](/people/emma-ashford)

Senior Fellow, Stimson Center

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##### [A. Trevor Thrall](/people/trevor-thrall)

Former Senior Fellow, Defense and Foreign Policy Department, Cato Institute

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