Sales to other belligerents in the war, like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), also rose exponentially.īarack Obama could have stopped the war at its start in 2015 by cutting off military, diplomatic, and intelligence support for the Saudi-led coalition that imposed a blockade on Yemen and began deadly air strikes on civilian targets.
agreed to sell over $64.1 billion worth of weapons to Riyadh, averaging $10.7 billion per year. arms transfers to Saudi Arabia amounted to $3 billion between 20, the U.S. A total of 73% of Saudi Arabia’s arms imports came from the U.S., and 13% from the U.K. and the United Kingdom about Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Yemen, both Washington and London continued to export arms to Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2019. Despite the wide-ranging concerns in the U.S.
Its imports of major arms increased by 130% compared with the previous five-year period. Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and TechnologyĪccording to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the preeminent think tank tracking arms sales, Saudi Arabia was the world’s largest arms importer from 2015 to 2019, the first five years of the Yemen war.
