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n. - A political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong armed force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.

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  • Their real alternative is a new mass party of the working class, pledged to oppose militarism by establishing a new democratic society.
  • Are we honoring the past or just reveling in militarism?
  • Unfortunately we have not yet reached the stage where militarism is condemned on these grounds.
  • I strongly suspect it has its origins in Japanese militarism/mobilization programs of the early Showa Period.
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