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militarism

belief of government that it should maintain a strong military and be prepared to use it
Class type of: political ideology, counterculture Q177266
militarism
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Summary

militarism is a political concept[1]. militarism is a type of political ideology[2] and counterculture[3].

Key Facts

  • Opposite of: antimilitarism[4]
  • Has cause: militarization[5]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[6], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[9], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10]
  • Different from: militarization[11], bellicosism[12], imperialism[13], Japanese militarism[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]

Related Entities

Hasan Nasrallah Jorge Rafael Videla Juan José Flores Lucy Suchman Ne Win Valery Gerasimov

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 28d ago · Artoria2e5 · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 68
    Different from → militarization, bellicosism, imperialism +1
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de',
    Harper's tag → militarism
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Japanese militarism"
  2. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0216946-militarismus
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0216946-militarismus, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  3. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → militarization, bellicosism, imperialism +1
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2213680
    Aliases → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 17142, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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