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militarism

belief of government that it should maintain a strong military and be prepared to use it
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militarism
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Summary

militarism is a political concept[1]. militarism draws 4,204 Wikipedia views per month (political concept category, ranking #9 of 86).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: political ideology[3], counterculture[4]
  • Commons category: Militarism[5]
  • Opposite of: antimilitarism[6]
  • Has cause: militarization[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Militarism[8]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[12], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13]
  • Different from: militarization[14], bellicosism[15], imperialism[16], Japanese militarism[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Why It Matters

militarism has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] militarism is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d 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. 18w 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. 21w 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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