The district no longer includes a naval weapons station, Army fort, or a Marine mountain-warfare training center.

NEWYORKER: The Force

The most determined effort to develop a small, cheap guided weapon, though, is the Forward Firing Miniature Munition (F2M2, or Spike missile), from the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California.

ECONOMIST: Cheap smart weapons

In symmetry that seems almost too perfect, much as Syria is a significant consumer of Russian weapons and hosts a Russian naval base, Bahrain is a significant consumer of American weapons and hosts an American naval base.

FORBES: A Tale of Two Repressions: Bahrain and Syria

Continued development and deployment of strategic offensive and defensive weapons, particularly naval, ballistic, space and cyber forces.

FORBES: Futenma and Changing U.S., China, and Japan Strategic Visions in Northeast Asia

In short, naval arms control is an excellent example of the degree to which weapons limitation or reduction agreements have become ends in themselves.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Naval Arms Control: An Idea Whose Time Must Never Come

The RQ-4A Global Hawk drone crashed during a routine training flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, according to Jamie Cosgrove, a spokeswoman for the Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons Program at the base.

CNN: Navy drone crashes in Maryland

These days, maritime-security providers operating off east Africa almost always make some use of weapons, says Didier Berra, a French army veteran who has worked for Secopex, a naval-security firm based in Carcassonne in France.

ECONOMIST: Piracy and private enterprise