Armaments
A weapon, arm or armament is any implement or device that can be used with the intent to inflict damage or harm. Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as hunting, crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and warfare. In broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a tactical, strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary or enemy target. While ordinary objects – sticks, rocks, bottles, chairs, vehicles – can be used as weapons, many are expressly designed for the purpose; these range from simple implements such as clubs, axes and …
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MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 26 July 2024 English
Since the end of the Second World War, the US’s engagement in South Asia has undergone changes in response to evolving geopolitical dynamics in the region and the global landscape. …
Engagement with South Asia providing arms. American armaments served as both a source of support for Pakistan …
FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 27 June 2024 English
In April, not long after NATO marked its 75 th anniversary, during a little-noticed press conference at the Alliance’s Headquarters in Brussels, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg declared, “if Allies face …
Allies. There is no doubt that Ukraine needs more armaments. Nowhere was the weapons shortage in Ukraine more …
ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 26 June 2024 English
Introduction The making of a nation’s grand strategy is the process of identifying, pursuing, and delivering the country’s highest national goals. The absence of a clearly articulated, all-encompassing, whole-of-state grand …
strategy—is that which so integrates the policies and armaments of the nation that the resort to war is either …
Brookings Institution · 20 June 2024 English
In a report published in 2022, the Department of Defense argued, "Since the 1990s, the defense sector has consolidated substantially, transitioning from 51 to 5 aerospace and defense prime contractors." …
a major government-owned system for building armaments—though it does have a that can help maintain …
EU: European Union · 18 June 2024 English
We are on the eve of possibly the most important EU elections since 1979, when Europeans voted in European Parliament elections for the first time, by universal suffrage. Polls suggest …
get bogged down in the technical details of the armaments plans, we give ourselves some time to communicate … decide to devote so much time and energy to armaments programmes. Explaining that standard security …
UN: The United Nations · 14 June 2024 English
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. . . . . 148 (cc) Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium . …
BESA: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies · 13 June 2024
To be sure, the human and material costs to Israel of such an existential conflict would be very high, but these costs could not reasonably be compared to the expected …
accidental or unauthorized attacks against its armaments and/ or populations. But if such measures were …
UN: The United Nations · 3 June 2024 English
20 p.
global security in evolution from algorithms to armaments, speaker tells First Committee”, 24 October 2023 …
UN: The United Nations · 3 June 2024 French
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global security in evolution from algorithms to armaments, speaker tells First Committee », 24 octobre 2023 …
UN: The United Nations · 3 June 2024 Arabic
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global security in evolution from algorithms to armaments, speaker tells First Committee”, 24 October 2023 …
