Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. (Ludwig Quidde)

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Ludwig Quidde

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