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- noun Alternative spelling of
anti-militarism .
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The effect of antimilitarism is to adjust the political and military playing field until the insurgents have an equal, or even greater, chance of victory.
There has never been a successful right-wing insurgency « Isegoria 2008
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"antimilitarism" is a better word for this aspect of our efforts.
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An arbitrary level of antimilitarism can be achieved simply by converging military tactics with judicial and police procedure.
There has never been a successful right-wing insurgency « Isegoria 2008
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The former is provided by a tendency in Whig politics that we can call antimilitarism.
There has never been a successful right-wing insurgency « Isegoria 2008
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Wars in which antimilitarism plays an important role are often described as “asymmetric.”
There has never been a successful right-wing insurgency « Isegoria 2008
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Your political model may have won, but we'll infect your society by reviving militant antimilitarism, a yearning for security at all cost, and a craze for distributive justice -- until the whole country is paralyzed.
Republic of Fear 2008
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For another thing, his antiauthoritarianism, antimilitarism, and borderless humanitarianism cause him to find the acts of political domination, war, and empire which make up the vast bulk of these “great” deeds and events not morally edifying but morally repugnant.
Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007
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I invoke Jimmy Carter and disparage Patrick Henry's 1775 war cry in the context of antimilitarism and Iraq and _two days later_ Jimmy Carter himself is on NPR doing the exact same thing.
UR 2Good 2B 4Gotten 2004
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Saratoga looked like a vindication of both antimilitarism and thrift.
Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999
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Saratoga looked like a vindication of both antimilitarism and thrift.
Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999
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