Word: militarist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basically they believe in the same things most people do. I don't think they have a militarist vocation. A minority of the military calling themselves, let's say, intellectuals, may try to organize a militarist concept of government. They confuse technocracy and dictatorship and try to introduce technocracy through a military regime, using it as a medium to attain the technocrat's objective...
...have the French troops remain, and he "hoped and expected" that some sort of agreement would be worked out in the next six months. In a way, it happens to be true. Foreign troops stationed on West German soil offer proof to the world that West Germany has no militarist ambitions...
...criticized U.S. policy in giving nuclear weapons to friends and allies. He said this only increases the danger of proliferation. He cited West Germany as on "especially dangerous risk--the U.S. does not realise West Germany's militarist potential...
...World War II lay not so much with Japanese aggression but with economic pressure exerted against Japan by "the ABCD Ring" (America, Britain, China and the Dutch). General Hideki Tojo, who coined the wartime ABCD rationale in the first place, is no longer pictured in the textbooks as a militarist on trial in a war crimes courtroom but as a kindly gent patting the heads of children...
...terms of the Act is that allotments can only be given to countries the U.S. recognizes. Immediate withdrawal of recognition is therefore a powerful economic weapon the U.S. can use to force the new junta to permit elections. The alternative, recognizing this militarist government, would amount to supporting it financially--an intolerable position...