militarist

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After a mutant-hating militarist named Stryker invades their school, the X-Men must join forces with Magneto to rescue Professor Xavier and neutralize the threat posed by Stryker.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019

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

He writes, for example, that, “like Spartans, Wehrmacht soldiers were effused with militarist doctrine, chronically short of men, brilliantly led on the battlefield — and often deployed for imbecilic strategic ends.”

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

The Soviet leadership considered Reagan an implacable militarist.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 24, 2017

The European belligerents, inured and case-hardened as they were to a militarist environment, had not been sufficiently chastened by their self-slaughter.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)