Military asset

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In military usage, a military asset is a weapon or means of production of weapons or other defensive or offensive devices or capabilities.

Whether a military asset is considered a capital asset, or part of public infrastructure, is a matter of definition. Marilyn Waring argued in the 1980s that under the UN System of National Accounts there was no clear differentiator of investment in public goods versus weaponry, and that this distorted the entire monetary system. See monetary reform for more on this issue.