But as I began to plan this talk, I kept seeing disturbing news from Mexico that was very relevant to tonight’s topic. Part of the reason I thought that would be interesting is that the gun lobby has invested enormous resources in convincing the public that the government is the enemy of the arms business instead of its historic and indispensable patron. government and the private arms industry, which has been present and essential to the American arms industry since the Revolution. arms trading over the long term, and I wanted to root that discussion in a broader conversation about the connection between the U.S. I had initially planned on speaking about U.S.

I am going to begin with something that will not surprise you: the United States is the arsenal to the world. His publications include the award-winning book War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War and the monograph Aim at Empire: Arms Trading and the Fates of American Revolutions. Brian DeLay is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

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