remilitarisation

Noun

remilitarization (countable and uncountable, plural remilitarizations)

1. The act or process of remilitarizing.
   • In more sophisticated versions, the German people are understood to have been taken in by Hitler’s charisma not least because the remilitarization he initiated — not to mention the Wehrmacht’s early battlefield successes — was a balm to wounded national pride.2007 February 18, Dagmar Herzog, “Handouts From Hitler”, in New York Times