Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.
If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front.
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
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