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             Armaments are just another global commodity. Yes indeed. One can almost smell the fiery depths of hell as one reads of the assassinations in parts of Africa, Asia, or Europe and tries to absorb the virulent rhetoric and the torrents of accusation and counter-accusation. We all want to live in peace, but throughout this human world some of the most explosive elements and forces have plagued the planet itself – the legacies of colonial dispossession, bizarre racial theories, perceived historical slights and injustices, warped religious cults, zealotry, and ideologies with pretensions to transcendent truth. There's a need to stay ever cautious; armaments provide that necessary peace of mind. Simply, if you want to be left in peace, you have to be able to defend yourself. Armaments have become a necessity, a demanded and supplied product, manufactured and traded.
            
             P. Bobbitt wrote in his The Shield of Achilles; War, Peace and the Course of History "We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state: only states could muster the huge revenues, conscript the vast armies, and equip the divisions required to threaten the survival of other states. Indeed posing s...