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Byline: datta03 President Lee Myung-bak pledged Monday to overhaul the military's weapons procurement system, saying ensuring transparency in defense budget spending is crucial in helping restore public confidence in the military.

The author points to the "attenuation of private property rights," changes in weapons procurement policy and below-market wages as confirmation of a wartime prosperity that lacked a true foundation.

defence spend is approximately 42% of the global spend on military weapons procurement and development12.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers pledged cooperation with the Obama administration to help fix the problems, which ranged from soaring cost overruns in weapons procurement to long backlogs in handling disability cases at the Social Security Administration, the Defense Department and the Veterans Administration.

He worries that the entrenched ways of the weapons procurement bureaucracy will make the military more vulnerable in future wars.

And insofar as new European owners will keep these companies going when they otherwise might have been forced to go out of business or lay off thousands of workers, such purchases will bring home to the American public the fact that transatlantic business in defense contractors and weapons procurement is a two-way street, with European investments building up American industry rather than undermining it.

Half BAE's business is now done in the US, which it has identified as the weapons procurement goldmine of the future.

At one point, it was estimated that at least 15% of the world''s rough diamonds were coming from rebel groups in Africa and being used to fund weapons procurement which, in turn, prolonged brutal wars.