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

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

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

“Even if nothing new appears,” he said at last, “the mere beating down and discrediting of the militarist system leaves a world released….”

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)