Washington, Feb. 7 -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday establishing an "America First Arms Transfer Strategy," aiming to prioritize US interests in foreign military sales and expand domestic defense production.

To maintain US military dominance and technological superiority, the time has come to establish, implement, and execute an America First Arms Transfer Strategy, he said while stressing that this strategy will advance a technologically superior, ready, and resilient national security industrial enterprise. It will strengthen the United States defense industrial base to ensure it has the capacity to support US military and its allies and partners, especially as the country increase burden-sharing.

The order ...