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remilitarization

Definitions

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  • noun The act or process of remilitarizing.

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  • noun the act of militarizing again

Etymologies

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remilitarize +‎ -ation

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Examples

  • The hardest of the hard-right movements of the 20th century, Nazism, at least had practical tools to improve the economic conditions of 1930s Germany — mainly, huge public works projects (autobahns, remilitarization).

    Matthew Yglesias » The Intra-Republican Fight 2009

  • Bringing the drug war to Guatemala faces opposition from leftist activist groups who say the use of soldiers to combat drug traffickers will lead to a remilitarization of Guatemala—and perhaps a return of the civil war in the country where some 200,000 were killed, mainly by the military.

    Mexican Drug War Spills to Neighbor Nicholas Casey 2011

  • By showcasing the country's avowedly pacifist orientation, they also helped allay concerns about Japan's remilitarization, even as the country's Self Defense Forces seemed at odds with a constitutional renunciation of the use of force.

    Japan Lifts Decadeslong Ban on Export of Weapons Chester Dawson 2011

  • While Obama's military escalation in South America is by now relatively well known, what is perhaps less publicized is the startling remilitarization occurring in Central America.

    Nikolas Kozloff: U.S. Marines to Costa Rica: What's Behind the Story? 2010

  • While Obama's military escalation in South America is by now relatively well known, what is perhaps less publicized is the startling remilitarization occurring in Central America.

    Nikolas Kozloff: U.S. Marines to Costa Rica: What's Behind the Story? Nikolas Kozloff 2010

  • While Obama's military escalation in South America is by now relatively well known, what is perhaps less publicized is the startling remilitarization occurring in Central America.

    Nikolas Kozloff: U.S. Marines to Costa Rica: What's Behind the Story? Nikolas Kozloff 2010

  • While Obama's military escalation in South America is by now relatively well known, what is perhaps less publicized is the startling remilitarization occurring in Central America.

    Nikolas Kozloff: U.S. Marines to Costa Rica: What's Behind the Story? Nikolas Kozloff 2010

  • Among Americans I have heard quite a number of unobjective arguments about remilitarization.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • Al Martin, a retired naval intelligence officer and former contributor to the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors, has linked the remilitarization of FEMA to the civil unrest anticipated along with economic collapse.

    Mysterious Prison Buses in the Desert 2009

  • War broke out that summer in Korea, and by autumn there were signs that General MacArthur and our American occupiers were purging left-wing groups of Communists while nudging our country, so newly and uncertainly pacified, toward some form of controlled remilitarization.

    Review: The Commoner « Gender Across Borders 2009

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