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means The ideology that a nation's strength, values, and priorities should be organized around military power and readiness, even in peacetime.

from Militarism grew out of the Latin miles/militis, 'soldier,' via militaris, 'of soldiers or war.' The -ism itself is the telling part: French militarisme emerged in the 19th century, coined to name not just having an army but being governed by the spirit of one — a society that thinks and budgets and dreams like a barracks. It caught on as European states industrialized war and made standing armies, conscription, and arms races a normal feature of civic life, so the word arrived exactly when the thing it named became impossible to ignore.