Meaning of counterarm | Babel Free

Definitions

To arm oneself in order to match the level of weaponry held by an opponent.

Examples

“After all, according to the letter of the 1979 NATO decision, the NATO council was supposed to examine first the results of the Soviet-U.S. talks and then to take a decision on whether to counterarm, as they call it in the West, or not to counterarm.”

“The lesson of the last four years is therefore that the zero option would not now be within our grasp if we had not taken the decision to counterarm and restore parity.”

“The process of detente suffered repeated setbacks, however, including the NATO decision to counterarm in 1977, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and the West's boycott of the © Olympic Games in the city of- Moscow in 1980.”

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