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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Excess military capacity

Excess military capacity

  • Surplus armaments
  • Redundant military capability
  • Strategic overkill capacity

Broader

Profiteering
Presentable
Excess
Unpresentable
Unnecessary reserves of material
Yet to rate
Surplus
Yet to rate

Narrower

Stockpiles of nuclear warfare material
Presentable

Aggravates

Socio-economic burden of militarization
Presentable
Proliferation of weapons in civilian hands
Presentable
Waste of resources invested in obsolete armaments
Unpresentable
Marine disposal of obsolete weapons
Unpresentable

Aggravated by

Proliferation of strategic nuclear weapons
Excellent
Competitive acquisition of arms
Excellent
Government dependence on arms manufacture
Unpresentable

Reduced by

Shortage of military manpower
Presentable

Strategy

Volunteering for military service
Yet to rate
Reducing surplus armaments
Yet to rate
Reducing military capability
Yet to rate
Distributing surplus armaments
Yet to rate

Value

Unstrategic
Yet to rate
Undercapacity
Yet to rate
Surplus
Yet to rate
Redundancy
Yet to rate
Overcapacity
Yet to rate
Incapability
Yet to rate
Excess
Yet to rate
Capacity
Yet to rate
Capability
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(B) Basic universal problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Merchandise
  • Defence » Arms
  • Defence » Military
  • Social activity » Unemployment
  • Strategy » Strategy
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J4443
    DOCID
    12044430
    D7NID
    135607
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020