Sentence:  It seems to me, however one looks at it—and I am torpedoing, "<WSD>shorthanding</WSD>", my arguments, though they can be developed at great ​length—that there is no military case for a large standing Army, and I pick out three arguments that I think are tremendously important which I should like the Minister to answer, even though he may reject them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To use a brief or shortened way of saying or doing something.