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militarization (s) (noun), militarizations (pl)
1. The act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency.
2. To equip with armed forces and defenses.
3. To adapt for military use.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

—Lester Bowles Pearson
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