Long before the war, the French high command, committed to an offensive war of movement, had downgraded fortifications, stripped many of armament, put their money on light field artillery and on the dash of troops charging with bayonets bared.
Albert Thomas was French Minister of Armament during World War I.
"Basically, any kind of armament you can imagine, we've had it," West said.
Fitting-out, including completion of the superstructure and the installation of armament, lasted until August 1911.
We then use the available data to explore some possible functional explanations for the predictable pattern of armament imbalance that we reveal.
In the field of security, China is a rising power, increasingly confident of its newfound strength, so it is unwilling to be shackled by international rules on armaments.
It means the limitation of armaments by international treaty.
He is an ardent worker for international reduction of armaments.
The third (1938 42) emphasized the production of armaments.
But the flood tide of armaments keeps running in.
After World War I the manufacture of armaments developed as a result of decentralizations from the Paris region, and there is a large armaments factory at Tulle.
