The article is devoted to the tendency of language militarization, which is manifested in active use of military terms, military metaphors, in wide typology of war. There is noted a certain shift in understanding and treating the meanings of the lexeme «war» from armed conflict to struggle, actions and competition to solve urgent problems, questions in different spheres of society life: economics, politics, medicine, sport, food, etc. The questions of language militarization should be discussed as the questions of linguistic security, because modern verbal communication is closely connected with speech conflicts, language and speech aggression.