Trump administration to push sales of American weaponry using embassy staff

The new policy could be launched as early as February, senior US officials told Reuters

American defence partners, like India, that Washington likes to woo with access to high-tech weaponry may now find themselves on the same page as lesser partners like Pakistan, to which the US government has tended of late to deny high-end defence equipment.

According to Reuters, President Donald Trump’s administration is finalising a strategy for arms sales involving a “whole of government” effort — roping in military and diplomatic personnel posted in US embassies — to push sales of American weaponry in the countries where they are posted. Reuters says this “key policy change would call for embassy staffers around the world