[Lightspeed]

Only what your average Anglophone from the 1900s onwards might imagine when you refer to "the military", obviously something that would vary but with not too great a range.

For instance if you were to pick up a paper from 100 years ago or today that referenced "military" in some way. About whatever definition you would imagine that would more or less apply in both cases.

Or maybe "the thing that projects physical force about the world so effectively."