Responding to a different topic… it seems that militarism arises only in the countries whose peoples are identified synonymously with the state. Militarism arises when one nation becomes powerful and its subjects become reliant upon that power or personal gain, resulting in happiness. The only way to retain that power is to ensure around the world that you are the dominant power. When Institutions question your dominance, you therefore smugly reply, because with power comes great responsibility, and our responsibility is to make sure you all are doing alright. The will of the people becomes aligned with the state and its policies. Our allegiance first and foremost must be to God, not the nation-state.
(There is a lot of good information about Just-Peacemaking in the http://www.peacecoalition.org/facts/PDF/just_peacemaking.pdf article. However, I need more time to sit with this so I will probably be writing about it in the next week analysis. Also there is a case study in Somalia, concerning an aspect of just-peacemaking called just enforcement, and why it doesn’t work.)