Not all military assistance given to a 'dodgy' country has to be in the form of hardware. Lets not forget that before Gulf War 1 many officers of the Republican Guard and Iraqi Army were trained in such glorious military establishments as West Point, Sandhurst and other fine training bases throughout the US and the UK.
Now days most of these ex-senior officers with outstanding military knowledge are supplementing their lack of military pay (good decision Bremner) with back handers for technical assistance from the very people we are trying to fight at the moment in Iraq.
Then we have our friendly CIA trained chums from Afghanistan and we all know how good they are at what they've been trained to do....
Of course all of this is the result of the Cold War being fought by proxy. Let some poor sap at the other world do the fighting whilst us folk in the west and the red menace in the east throw the occasional tip bit into the mêlée.
One day we may learn that these things always seem to bite us in the arse.