remilitarization

/riˌmɪlɪtərəˈzeɪʃən/
noun
  1. The process of building up military forces and weapons again in a place that had previously reduced or removed them.
    • The country's remilitarization worried its neighbors.
    • Historians debate the causes of the remilitarization of the Rhineland in the 1930s.
    • The treaty prevented the remilitarization of the border region.
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