Defense trade between the two countries still dominates, though.
After two seasons there, the Pacers, exasperated by Jackson's defense, traded him to Denver.
State Department officials have said that the reorganization was meant to improve the defense trade unit's performance.
And Romney's critiques — didn't support the green revolution; weak on the Polish missile defense trade — are stock critiques and familiar.
Among the main responsibilities of the national government are defense, trade and commerce, banking, credit, currency and bankruptcy, criminal law, citizenship, taxation, postal services, fisheries, transportation, and telecommunications.
Bilateral defense trade has gone from zero to $10 billion dollars and India is likely to purchase more military equipment from the United States.
"I came out strongly in support of export," Mr. Brannen, the lead author of the study, wrote in an email to Kenneth B. Handelman, the deputy assistant secretary of state for defense trade controls.
Compared with Boeing and other behemoths of the global defense trade, Israel Aircraft is no giant: its $1 billion in foreign military sales puts it about 30th among major arms sellers abroad, according to independent assessments.
But Mr. Cheney's past positions on national defense, trade, abortion and other issues are close enough to Mr. Bush's -- and Mr. Buchanan's -- that Mr. Buchanan cannot claim to be the conservative alternative to a moderate Republican ticket.
"The industry is getting used to the idea that the massive buildup and modernization program for defense across the world for the last 15 years is over," said Ian Godden, the chairman of ADS, a British aerospace and defense trade body that also owns Farnborough International, host to the biennial show, which takes place about an hour's journey from London.
