militaristic

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His answer was that there were always alternatives, many of them militaristic in nature, in the wings to suck up the funds that had been spent in the past.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

“We’re a bit skeptical that people are going to achieve their goals pursuing their militaristic policies. Things don’t seem to ever work out the way that leaders imagined.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Its pseudo-futuristic vision is militaristic, stainless-steel fortified, masculinist, individualistic, and unforgiving.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2025

During his Nobel Peace Prize speech, Martin Luther King Jr. declared: “I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.”

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2024

For instance, in 1519 Cortes landed on the coast of Mexico with 600 Spaniards, to conquer the fiercely militaristic Aztec Empire with a population of many millions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond