Arsenal

A place where munitions and weapons are stored, repaired, or manufactured. Arsenals have been an important part of war since antiquity, for it is most efficient to arm large bodies of troops from fixed locations. They have usually been of particular importance to standing professional armies, such as those of Imperial Rome and of the United States in the twentieth century. Informally organized guerrillas and tribal (or otherwise technologically unsophisticated) military societies often require individual fighters to obtain and repair their own weaponry. The hoplites of ancient Greece...

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