Brief Overview: US Military Sales to Lebanon21st Century Wire says The business of defense.In order to sustain mammoth defense sector based in North America, the U.S. relies on international procurement and sales of both new and close-out military industrial goods.Although a relatively small country in size, Lebanon is a key position on the Middle East chessboard, and could one day become an emerging military market for US defense corporations. In Washington DC, however, the topic of US military aid the Lebanon is a relatively hushed affair because of the Israeli Lobby s influence over US lawmakers. Technically, Israel and its neighbor Lebanon aew still at war, so any US funds allocated to the Lebanese Armed Forces is seen as an affront to Tel Aviv.In 2014, the US awarded $156 million in aid to Lebanon   which is money that Lebanon would be required to spend exclusively with US corportions, as per the usual arrange with all  tied  US aid (except for Israel, who seems to enjoy a more flexible arrangement with some special dispensation to spend its annual $3.2 billion in US military aid where it wants).Here are the specs of Lebanon s defense orders from US firms Boiling Frogs Post   Researcher Christian Sorensen analyzes weapon sales from the U.S. war industry to the Lebanese armed forces. U.S. Foreign Military Sales to Lebanon are publicly available on the U.S. Department of Defense website. FMS to Lebanon involve: aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, communications, small arms & light weapons, ground vehicles, water craft, and foreign liaison administration. Orbital ATK: 28 May 2015, 13 Jan 2012 ATSC: 20 Dec 2012, 31 July 2013 Textron: 15 March 2016 Northrop Grumman (Litton Industries): 30 July 1996 Sierra Nevada: 30 October 2015 Boeing (Insitu): 30 Sept 2015 Harris Corporation: 25 Sept 2015 Colt: 21 May 2015, 8 Aug 1995 Hellfire Systems (Lockheed Martin & Boeing JV): 17 Dec 2014 Raytheon: 30 Sept 2014 Corporations providing crew served weapon gear: 17 May 2011 Medico Industries: 17 March 2011 AM General: 6 July 2015, 23 Sept 2015 Maritime Security Strategies: 14 Jan 2011 Corporations providing liaison tech/admin support: 25 July 2014  READ MORE LEBANON NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Lebanon FilesMiddle-east
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Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: Brief Overview: US Military Sales to Lebanon21st Century Wire says The business of defense.In order to sustain mammoth defense sector based in North America, the U.S. relies on international procurement and sales of both new and close-out military industrial goods.Although a relatively small country in size, Lebanon is a key position on the Middle East chessboard, and could one day become an emerging military market for US defense corporations. In Washington DC, however, the topic of US military aid the Lebanon is a relatively hushed affair because of the Israeli Lobby s influence over US lawmakers. Technically, Israel and its neighbor Lebanon aew still at war, so any US funds allocated to the Lebanese Armed Forces is seen as an affront to Tel Aviv.In 2014, the US awarded $156 million in aid to Lebanon   which is money that Lebanon would be required to spend exclusively with US corportions, as per the usual arrange with all  tied  US aid (except for Israel, who seems to enjoy a more flexible arrangement with some special dispensation to spend its annual $3.2 billion in US military aid where it wants).Here are the specs of Lebanon s defense orders from US firms Boiling Frogs Post   Researcher Christian Sorensen analyzes weapon sales from the U.S. war industry to the Lebanese armed forces. U.S. Foreign Military Sales to Lebanon are publicly available on the U.S. Department of Defense website. FMS to Lebanon involve: aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, communications, small arms & light weapons, ground vehicles, water craft, and foreign liaison administration. Orbital ATK: 28 May 2015, 13 Jan 2012 ATSC: 20 Dec 2012, 31 July 2013 Textron: 15 March 2016 Northrop Grumman (Litton Industries): 30 July 1996 Sierra Nevada: 30 October 2015 Boeing (Insitu): 30 Sept 2015 Harris Corporation: 25 Sept 2015 Colt: 21 May 2015, 8 Aug 1995 Hellfire Systems (Lockheed Martin & Boeing JV): 17 Dec 2014 Raytheon: 30 Sept 2014 Corporations providing crew served weapon gear: 17 May 2011 Medico Industries: 17 March 2011 AM General: 6 July 2015, 23 Sept 2015 Maritime Security Strategies: 14 Jan 2011 Corporations providing liaison tech/admin support: 25 July 2014  READ MORE LEBANON NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Lebanon FilesMiddle-east
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: brief overview us military sales century wire says the business order sustain mammoth defense sector based north america relies international procurement sales new military industrial relatively small country size lebanon key position middle east chessboard could one day become emerging military market us defense corporations in washington dc however topic us military aid lebanon relatively pushed affair israeli lobby influence us lawmakers technically israel neighbor lebanon aew still war us funds allocated lebanese armed forces seen front tel us awarded million aid lebanon money lebanon would required spend exclusively us corporations per usual arrange tied us aid except israel seems enjoy flexible arrangement special dispensation spend annual billion us military aid wants specs lebanon defense orders us firms boiling frogs post researcher christian rensen analyzes weapon sales war industry lebanese armed forces foreign military sales lebanon publicly available department defense website fms lebanon involve aircraft unmanned aerial vehicles communications small arms light weapons ground vehicles water craft foreign liaison administration orbital at may jan asc dec july neutron march northrop grammar little industries july sierra nevada october boeing inside sept harris corporation sept colt may aug hellfire systems locked martin boeing jv dec pantheon sept corporations providing crew served weapon gear may medic industries march am general july sept maritime security strategies jan corporations providing liaison support july read more lebanon news at century wire lebanon