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• v  lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force
• v  adopt for military use
• s  issued military arms

• But despite the rubber-plantation and road projects, these three southernmost provinces have also turned into a giant militarized zone over the past couple years.
• North Korea and South Korea technically remain in a state of war, divided by a heavily militarized border, because their three-year conflict in the 1950s ended in a truce, not a .
• For two decades, Kashmiris have lived in one of the most militarized regions of the world, with 800,000 troops stationed in the 15,520 sq km (5,992 sq mile) Kashmir Valley and .

• militarize
• militarise
• militarised

• demilitarize
• demilitarise

News & Articles

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• Prepare the Internet for battle, suggests UK official
  A recently published report on potential scenarios of cyber-conflict, The Global Cyber-Game, says it is inevitable that the Internet will be "militarized"—used to serve the needs of military conflict between nations—and that ICT will increasingly be both an important means and a target of such conflict. Published as the result of a lengthy study by the UK's Defense Academy—the educational and ...
  June 16, 2013 - PC World

Quotes

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• Matt Lauer in Washington Post
  Matt Lauer said on the "Today" show that "after careful consideration, NBC News has decided that a change in terminology is warranted, that the situation is Iraq with armed militarized factions fighting for their own political agendas can now be...
• Tendai Biti in USA Today
  We have a militarized, polarized situation,Biti said in a news conference. "There is violence, intolerance, hate speech and vitriolic propaganda."
• Cuauhtémoc in International Herald Tribune
  It's completely militarized around here. It is completely illegal, unconstitutional,Democratic Revolution congressman Cuauhtemoc Sandoval told The Associated Press. "Vicente Fox started out as a president, and is finishing up as a...