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Weapons dressed up as policy, so violence can wear a suit to work.
means The weapons, equipment, and military forces a country or vehicle has, or the act of equipping for war.
from From Latin armamenta, 'implements' or 'gear' — originally the tackle of a ship, from arma, 'weapons' or 'tools.' The word sailed into English in the 1600s already carrying that dual sense of equipment and weaponry, before narrowing toward its modern, more martial meaning.
- root meaning
- from arma, tools of war plus bureaucracy
- economics twist
- often the budget line nobody dares cut
- scale shift
- turns a knife into a national strategy
- irony
- built for peace, funded by fear of its absence