On a serious note. Pakistan has made over $ 20 Billion out of the United States over 2002-2010 and thats not taking the time value of money into the question.
Pakistan recapitalized its armed forces with US assistance already. The term Grand Bargain is apt.
Direct Overt U.S. Aid Appropriations and Military Reimbursements to Pakistan, FY2002-FY2012
Prepared by the Congressional Research Service for distribution to multiple congressional offices, May 6, 2011
(rounded to the nearest millions of dollars)
The Pentagon reports total Foreign Military Sales agreements with Pakistan worth $5.4 billion for FY2002-FY2010 (inprocess
sales of F-16 combat aircraft and related equipment account for more than half of this).
The United States also has provided Pakistan with more than $2.1 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants since 2001 (including FY2010 funds). These funds are used to purchase U.S. military equipment for longer-term modernization efforts. Pakistan also has been granted U.S. defense supplies as Excess Defense Articles (EDA).
Major post-2001 defense supplies
provided or soon to be provided under FMF include:
• eight P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft and their refurbishment (valued at $474
million; two delivered);
• about 6,312 TOW anti-armor missiles ($186 million; at least 2,007 delivered);
• more than 5,600 military radio sets ($163 million);
• six AN/TPS-77 surveillance radars ($100 million);
31 “Pakistani Military ‘Misspent Up to 70% of American Aid,’” Guardian (London), February 28, 2008; “Revamping
Aid to Pakistan is Expected in Bush Report,” New York Times, December 7, 2008. In mid-2008, the leader of
Pakistan’s ruling party, now-President Zardari claimed, without providing evidence, that, as president, Pervez
Musharraf had been passing only a fraction of the funds over to the Pakistani military, leaving some $700 million of
reimbursements per year “missing” (quoted in “Where’s the Money?,” Sunday Times (London), August 10, 2008).
• six C-130E transport aircraft and their refurbishment ($76 million);
• five refurbished SH-2I Super Seasprite maritime helicopters granted under EDA ($67 million);
• the USS McInerney, an ex-Perry class missile frigate (via EDA, $65 million for refurbishment);
• 20 AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters via EDA ($48 million, 12 refurbished and
delivered); and
• 121 refurbished TOW missile launchers ($25 million).
Supplies paid for with a mix of Pakistani national funds and FMF include:
• up to 60 Mid-Life Update kits for F-16A/B combat aircraft (valued at $891
million, with $477 million of this in FMF; Pakistan’s current plans are to
purchase 35 such kits); and
• 115 M-109 self-propelled howitzers ($87 million, with $53 million in FMF).
Notable items paid for entirely with Pakistani national funds include:
• 18 new F-16C/D Block 50/52 combat aircraft, with an option for 18 more (valued at $1.43 billion, 17 delivered to date34);
• F-16 armaments including 500 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles; 1,450 2,000-pound bombs; 500 JDAM bomb tail kits for gravity bombs; and 1,600 Enhanced Paveway laser-guided bomb kits, also for gravity bombs ($629 million);
• 100 Harpoon anti-ship missiles ($298 million);
• 500 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles ($95 million); and
• six Phalanx Close-In Weapons System naval guns ($80 million).
Other major articles transferred via EDA include:
• 14 F-16A/B combat aircraft;
• 59 T-37 military trainer jets’ and
• 550 M-113 armored personnel carriers.35
Under Coalition Support Funds (part of the Pentagon budget), Pakistan has received 26 Bell 412 utility helicopters, along with related parts and maintenance, valued at $235 million.
Under Section 1206 (global train and equip), Frontier Corps, and PCF/PCCF authorities (all overseen by the Defense Department to date), Pakistan has received four Mi-17 multirole helicopters (another six were provided temporarily at no cost), two King Air 350 surveillance aircraft, 450 vehicles for
the Frontier Corps, 20 Buffalo explosives detection and disposal vehicles, hundreds of M-141 34 The first of the new F-16s were delivered in June 2010, when three aircraft were inducted into the Pakistani Air
Force at the Shabaz Air Base near Jacobabad. A fourth delivery saw five more planes delivered in December, representing “near completion” of the new Block 52 squadron (all 18 aircraft are set to be delivered by January 2012) (see the U.S. Embassy’s December 13, 2010, release at http://islamabad.usembassy.gov/pr-10121309.html).
Bunker Defeat Munitions, helicopter spare parts, sophisticated explosives detectors, night vision devices, radios, body armor, helmets, first aid kits, litters, and large amounts of other individual soldier equipment. Pakistan is eager to receive more counterinsurgency hardware for use in
western Pakistan, including armored personnel carriers, laser target designators, laser-guided munitions, and more night-vision goggles and surveillance gear. They also request better and
more sophisticated surveillance and communications equipment, along with more attack and utility helicopters.
Despite the provision of equipment suited to unconventional warfare, some analysts have continued to criticize the programming of security-related aid to Pakistan. Foremost among these are assertions that the Pakistani military maintains an institutional focus on conventional warfighting
capabilities oriented toward India and that it has used U.S. security assistance to bolster these capabilities while paying insufficient attention to the kinds of counterinsurgency capacity that U.S. policy makers might prefer to see strengthened. For example, of the some $2.1 billion
in Foreign Military Financing provided to Pakistan from FY2002-FY2010, more than half has been used by Islamabad to purchase weapons of limited use in the context of counterterrorism.37
Pretty much everything, from fighters to PGMs to artillery to radars to antiship missiles, APCs, TOW missiles, trainers …and yet? Not enough, more grand bargaining required.
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