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The brief interval when armies update spreadsheets instead of invading countries.
means The period when a nation is not at war, marked by civil rather than military priorities.
from A straightforward compound of 'peace' — from Old French 'pais,' rooted in Latin 'pax' — plus 'time.' Nothing hidden here: English simply fused the two words, first showing up in writing by around the 15th-16th century, as a plain opposite to 'wartime.' The pairing stuck because armies and treaties kept needing a tidy word for 'the other kind of time,' the stretch between one war's end and the next one's paperwork.
- budget target
- Military spending first cut, always
- innovation irony
- Many weapons invented during peacetime lulls
- economic use
- Term economists love, historians rarely trust
- duration
- Historically shorter than everyone expects