Peacekeeping Operations Prove Profitable For U.S. Firms

By Thomas Duffy / January 6, 2000 at 5:00 AM
President Bill Clinton's policy of using United States troops to support NATO and United Nations peacekeeping operations has drawn sharp criticism from congressional Republicans over the past seven years. But U.S. companies have benefited from these operations, as they have accounted for more than $64 million of all equipment sold to the U.N. in 1997, the last year for which data is available, to support peacekeeping operations, according to the Clinton administration's most recent report on U.S. involvement in peacekeeping...

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