militarist

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The anti-torture movement resists that part of militarist ideology that says war can be waged without moral or legal limits.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2018

The Soviet leadership considered Reagan an implacable militarist.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 24, 2017

Her passion drove the set as she paired literal head bangs with her gyrating moves, alternating between furious bursts of dance and controlled, militarist actions such as saluting and marching.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2016

Oliver Otis Howard is the militarist for whom Howard University and Howard Hospital are named.

From Washington Times • Jun. 25, 2015

Although militarist literature on this, as on most similar points, shows flagrant contradictions, even that literature is against the view that war is the outcome of the sheer sudden temper of nations.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman