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This book looks at the military aid given by communist bloc countries to other bloc countries and to Third World nations. The authors analyze the military aid capabilities of communist donor nations, their specific motivations for offering military aid, and the policies and guidelines that govern arms assistance.

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The Military Assistance Training Program has been and is a low-cost, low-risk foreign policy instrument that has served the United States interest in interstate stability and has provided a valuable channel of communication and in fluence with a significant elite, especially in the Third World. In the past 25 years, the program has reached over 450,000 officers and men from 70 allied and friendly countries. Most of them have been trained in the United States, in more than 2,000 different skills from auto mechanics and bookkeeping to computer sciences and advanced manage ment. The program has advanced the efficiency, professional performance, and readiness of the recipient military services. Perhaps more significant, it has established a continuing link between United States and host-state military leaders, many of the latter being in positions of political responsibility.

The Military Assistance Training Program is a low cost, low risk foreign policy instrument that has served the US interest in interstate stability & has provided a valuable channel of communication & influence with a significant elite, especially in the Third World. In the past 25 years, the program has reached over 450,000 officers & men from 70 allied & friendly countries. Most of them have been trained in the US, in more than 2,000 different skills from auto mechanics & bookkeeping to computer sciences & advanced management. The program has advanced the efficiency, professional performance, & readiness of the recipient military services. Perhaps more significantly, it has established a continuing link between US & host state military leaders, many of the latter being in positions of political responsibility. Effects on stability & security, & on internal economic & political developments are discussed. 2 Tables. Modified HA.

There are many means employed by the United States to maintain and advance its position throughout the world during the current period of bipolar conflict. The most conspicuous of these are subsumed under what is known as the Mutual Security Program. Nearly half of the approximately $4 billion budgeted during fiscal year 1962 for mutual security went into military assistance. Of this, about $125 million was devoted to the training of foreign military personnel. This Military Assistance Training Program, including the training of foreigners in the United States and that administered overseas by Military Assistance Advisory Groups (MAAG's), missions, overseas commands, and third countries, constitutes by far the largest effort the world has known on the part of one country to educate and train citizens of others. The number of foreigners given military assistance training in the United States each year—about 16,500 in 1960—exceeds the number trained here under the Fulbright, Smith-Mundt, and Agency for International Development (AID) programs combined.