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A weapon is a tool used to multiply the amount of damage that a human can do to another human, animal or thing. A weapon may be anything from a simple lever such as a club (which increases the force of a blow through increased angular momentum) to an ICBM. Pretty much any technology can be used as a weapon. E.g. bio-weapons, eco-weapons and chemical weapons. See also netwar for a discussion on using information technology as a weapon.

Strategies, and doctrines are included here becase they fit the above definition of a weapon.

A list of common weapons, in roughly ascending technological order:

Martial arts

Muscle-powered personal weapons

Armor

Small arms firearm

medieval siege weaponry

ammunition

Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles

Military unit

Communications

Military vehicles

Fortification

Doctrines

Military technology and equipment

See also riot control agent.

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