non-augmentation

Updated: May 21, 2025

The first of these committees is to take charge of the preliminary discussion of those articles in the Mouravieff circular concerning the non-augmentation of armies and the limitation in the use of new explosives and of especially destructive weapons.

Andrew Dickson White - Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2

The instructions from the State Department were then read. These were, in effect, as follows: The first article of the Russian proposals, relating to the non-augmentation of land and sea forces, is so inapplicable to the United States at present that it is deemed advisable to leave the initiative, upon this subject, to the representatives of those powers to which it may properly apply.

Andrew Dickson White - Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2