Edward A. Kolodziej 
Making and Marketing Arms [PDF ebook] 
The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System

France ranks as the world’s third largest arms exporter and supplies arms and military technology to over a hundred countries. This book exposes the compelling aims and interests–national independence, security, economic welfare, foreign influence, grandeur–that explain the nation’s successes in arms production and transfers.
Originally published in 1987.
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