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A concept that connotes: a. any plan, arrangement, or process, resting upon explicit or implicit international agreement, governing any aspect of the following: the numbers, types, and performance characteristics of weapon systems (including the command and control, logistics support arrangements, and any related intelligence-gathering mechanism); and the numerical strength, organization, equipment, deployment, or employment of the Armed Forces retained by the parties (it encompasses disarmament); and b. on some occasions, those measures taken for the purpose of reducing instability in the military environment.
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As arms-control expert Ken Adelman has written: "The critics don't want a perfect missile defense system -- one fully researched and tested. Looking back upon the death of UNSCOM, Butler understandably worries about the precedent Iraq might set for other nations who now see how easy it is to cheat on arms-control agreements and get away with it. Besides the arms-control agreements, he accused Bosnian Serbs of damaging the peace in Bosnia by preventing freedom of movement, failing to allow refugees to return home and failing to cooperate with the international war crimes tribunal. |
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