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American national power depends on a strong industrial sector capable of meeting both peacetime and wartime production demands.
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Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
When the country shifted from wartime to peacetime, Americans were ready to splurge and soon began spending big on new cars, appliances and clothes.
—Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2025
The original plan, for example, caps the Ukrainian army at 600,000 personnel, but that is larger than the British, French, and German armies combined, and is a much bigger force than Ukraine could hope to maintain in peacetime.
—Anatol Lieven, Time, 28 Nov. 2025
Previously, the 1996 Garley building fire, which killed 41 people, was widely described as the worst peacetime fire in Hong Kong history.
—Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
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The new agreement says that Ukraine’s sovereignty and its ability to defend itself are non-negotiable elements of any peace deal and warned that its self-defense is essential to its own security and wider Euro-Atlantic stability.—
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As temperatures bottom out and ice fringes the shore, a certain peace takes over.—
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“Peacetime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peacetime. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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