Maybe that’s why we don’t use the term when it comes to people. We don’t speak of “demilitarizing” enemy combatants or even insurgents, we use words like “disarm” and “demobilize” to describe the process of transforming them from combatants into non-combatants. Yet, unlike with weaponry, those people so transformed don’t suddenly become less lethal, less willing to take military action should they be called upon to do so. They are still, in their hearts and in their minds, military or, perhaps, simply militant.