"arming" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of equipping a person or place with weapons or military equipment. For example, you could say: "The country has been arming its military forces to prepare for potential warfare."
Ashton Carter told the Senate armed services committee that he "very much incline[d]" towards arming the Ukrainian government.
Arming troops with almost no real training and sending them into extremely sensitive situations where they may be shot at with weapons from within crowds, largely made up of angry but unarmed civilians, sounds like a recipe for disaster.
During the previous Iraq war, the US spent nearly a decade and hundreds of billions of dollars building, arming and mentoring Iraqi military and police units, only to see them overwhelmed by Isis.
In a significant intensification of British involvement in the Iraq crisis, the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, will tell his EU counterparts in Brussels on Friday that Britain is prepared to join France in arming the Kurds.
Philip Hammond, Britain's foreign secretary, said the UK would play a leading role in the coalition, suggesting military efforts beyond its current involvement in arming the Kurds and flying reconnaissance missions.
Even with training, there is no guarantee teachers and staff will prevent fatalities in a high-stakes situation, said Allison Anderman, a staff attorney with Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a nonprofit opposed to arming teachers.
Though the Arab League suspended Syria in November 2011, and many Arab monarchs are arming and financing Bashar al-Assad's opponents in the civil war, none has yet dared to come out publicly for an American attack.
In Baghdad a senior Shia politician, whose own party has started arming and equipping a militia force of its own, said that he feared the Shia were becoming as radical as the enemy they were fighting.
The interior ministry was also charged with investigating crimes by pro-Yanukovych street fighters known as titushki, even though interior ministry officials are suspected of arming these men.
Meanwhile evidence has emerged that Congo is mobilising and arming forces in preparation for carrying the war into Rwanda and Uganda.
"By arming the community and creating all these regiments of militias, I am scared that my sect and community will burn.
