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).