Conventional Ammunition Diversion
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Overview Diversion is the unauthorized transfer of arms and ammunition from the stocks of legal users to the illicit market. Throughout the world, it sustains the activities of non-state armed groups, terrorist organizations, and armed criminality. It is one of the principal sources of illicit weaponry and represents a grave threat to the safety of civilian populations, as well as to the security of the state itself. Diversion takes many forms, ranging from large international transfers organized by corrupt military officials to low-level, localized theft and resale of munitions by military and police forces. Diversion affects all countries, and it occurs at all points in the national stockpile chain. This chapter systematizes types of diversion from national stockpiles. In each case, it highlights relevant stockpile management and physical security measures that can be taken to curtail diversion. It concludes that diversion is largely a self-inflicted problem that stems from poor stockpile management by national authorities. However, many of the factors that facilitate diversion can often be made less problematic by relatively simple, low-cost measures.
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