How did militarism at both the state an social level contribute to the outbreak of World War 1 ?

How did militarism at both the state an social level contribute to the outbreak of World War 1 ? Order Description Using different points of view and being critical is important. Some readings that can be useful: 1) Anthony Best, Jussi Hanhimaki, Joseph A Maiolo, Kirsten E. Schulze, International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Routledge; 2nd Edition 2008), ch. 1. 2) Paul W. Schroeder, ‘World War I as Galloping Gertie’ and his ‘Embedded Counterfactuals and World War I as an Unavoidable War’, in Paul W. Schroeder, 3) David Wetzel and Robert Jervis, Systems, Stability, and Statecraft: Essays on the International History of Modern Europe (2004) 4) David Stevenson, “Militarization and Diplomacy in Europe before 1914”, International Security 22/1 (1997) 5) Marc Trachtenberg, ‘The Coming of the First World War: A Reassessment’, in History and Strategy (1991)