militarize

She said Monday that returning to a militarized strategy in the war on drugs won’t curb impunity.

The three-decade veteran of Border Patrol, who has used slick social media videos to promote the agency’s heavy-handed tactics, brought militarized operations once primarily used at the border into America’s largest cities.

The statement highlighted opposition to militarized actions in communities, policies favoring wealthy elites, and other measures the group characterizes as anti-democratic.

An extreme example of where a militarized war on drugs could lead is Carranza’s native Philippines.

The late Abbasid caliphs militarized their economy in an effort to wrest control from the dominant merchants.