This process was then coupled with the implementation of her planned Military Disarmament Act. This was probably the most controversial policy that Mon Mothma forced through. Her reasoning was that violence and centralized armed forces had long ruled and ruined the galaxy. That a large standing military would always produce the circumstances for further conflicts. Peace could not be achieved through the mass stockpiling of weapons of war.10 The New Republic’s military would be reduced in size by 90 percent, leaving just a peacekeeping force behind.
