Military globalization is the rarest type of globalization in academic literature.^{[ citation needed]} It refers to:

• accomplished globalization of imperial and colonial expansions ( world-system);
• accomplished globalization of warfare (World Wars);
• accomplished globalization of conflict (Cold War),
• accomplished globalization of strategy (nuclear war plans).^{[ citation needed]}

Military globalization includes the increasing global strategic integration through the network of alliances and forward deployed bases and installations ( power projection), delivery means of global range (primarily nuclear triad), militarization of space and other global commons, networks of anti-ballistic missile defense, global surveillance, technological by-products of military globalization (such as GPS), and military-sponsored global researches (in such fields as geodesy).