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Competing on arms

  • Having arms race
  • Engaging in strategic arms rivalry

Description

Competing on arms involves the deliberate development, acquisition, and deployment of military capabilities to achieve strategic advantage, deter adversaries, or compel compliance. This strategy addresses security threats by maintaining or surpassing rivals’ arsenals, often through technological innovation, increased defense spending, and forming alliances. Its practical intent is to prevent aggression, protect national interests, and influence geopolitical outcomes, while remedies include arms control agreements and confidence-building measures to reduce escalation risks.This information has been generated by artificial intelligence.

Broader

Using strategy of deterrence
Presentable
Competing
Presentable
Engaging in rivalry
Yet to rate
Balancing conventional armed forces
Yet to rate

Narrower

Proliferating strategic nuclear arms
Excellent

Constrains

Networking against arms trade
Unpresentable

Constrained by

Negotiating convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons
Excellent
Reducing strategic arms rivalry
Yet to rate

Facilitated by

Advocating militarization
Yet to rate

Problem

Proliferation of strategic nuclear weapons
Excellent
Competitive acquisition of arms
Excellent
Space weapons arms race
Presentable
Risk of unintentional war generated by the arms race
Presentable
Nuclear arms race
Presentable
Anti-satellite arms race
Presentable
Naval arms race
Unpresentable
Lack of business opposition to the arms race
Yet to rate

Value

Unstrategic
Yet to rate
Rivalry
Yet to rate

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
V0728
DOCID
13207280
D7NID
193663
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/competing-arms
Last update
Dec 3, 2024