World Arms trade

Frida Berrigan has a good article on the global arms trade, which is now dominated at 70% by the US, a drastic change from Cold War days when the USSR, China, France and the UK also were important players in % terms.
In particular:
the Obama administration’s new 2010/2011 budget allocates $6 billion in weaponry for Afghan Security Forces. The Afghans will actually get those weapons for free, but U.S. weapons makers will make real money delivering them at taxpayers’ expense.

A more detailed report is available here.