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Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare; and regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause.

Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage:

  1. Modern warfare has resulted in civil strife.
  2. Chemical agents are useful in modern warfare.
  3. Use of chemical agents in warfare would be undesirable.
  4. People in military establishments like to use chemical agents in war.
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D. People in military establishments like to use chemical agents in war.
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At First sentence

Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian populations"
->talks about shrinking of the level of wars in todays world


In Second Sentence  
Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare;
->talks about advantages of the chemical agent in wars

In Third Sentence
and regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause.
->It says There Exist People in military who thinks they are useful
Looking at options
A. As civil Strife would be between To different parties and not armies and population, not the correct answer according to me.(Not Correct)
B. It tells about the 1st and 2nd sentence but Doesn't tell about 3rd sentence so It won't summarize it.(Not Correct)
C. "it basically tells that there are some people who don't desire to send chemical agents to war, yes there has been a word used "regretfully"  but the question has mentioned about Likeness of chemical agent from military and not about "undesirability" so it doesn't summarize the question correctly.(Not Correct)
D. It covers all the sentence and summarizes it very well, somepoints may feel like it is not summarizes well but in compared to other options it is the best possible option we have.
(please do correct me if I am wrong anywhere I would love to improve my thinking about this)

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