ABSTRACT
During the twentieth century, however, once clear divisions between war and peace, military and civilian life, eroded as weapons and military equipment have become embedded in national and international economies. For scholars working within existing disciplinary specialisms, conventional compartmentalization by genre, period, language and/or geography might suffice to frame consideration of militarization as a subcategory or thematic focus. The military definition of reality is unlikely to be apprehended directly, since modern war is about nothing if not dissimulation. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the agonistic binary thinking of the Cold War dissolved even as the US military was busy rebooting organizationally and technologically via its so-called revolution in military affairs (RMA). To refer to a militarized literature, is not to speak of something outside and other, nor to think of militarization as something imposed or forced upon literature; instead, it is to recognize militarization as an integral part of contemporary world and cultures produced within it.
