It's nothing to do with militarism. But I wouldn't expect non-Aussies to comprehend.

Like the Rats of Tobruk, it was a moment when a group pf people said 'fuck you, we not going to crumble'. There is great respect between Turks and Aussies to this day. many Turks migrated here.

ANZAC was the beginning of realizing for Aussies that the Mother Country was a bunch of ignorant idiots. We did not serve as Aussies with Aussie leaders, but with British Officers, some of whom may actually have been clinically insane. The British Officers - with orders to reach the heights before the Turks, who could clearly see them moving and pulled out all stops to reach the heights on the run, stopped to make tea! They didn't get there before the Turks - who then had the highest spots from which they could sight artillery, and see also the Dardanelles! This set the tone for the whole disaster. The British Officers behaved as did the Yanks In Vietnam - sending back glowing reports of how well they were doing. It was an Aussie journalist who let the cat out of the bag.

On the Western Front, just after this, there was an enormous political struggle before Aussie generals were allowed to lead Aussie troops. Only after that were the Aussie allowed to fight with intelligent effort, before that they were just considered dumb thug shock troops, who fought pretty well for just colonials, (h)actually...

It's got nothing to do with militarism, but governments had tried to corrupt it to be so. The Aussie People resist that push. We honour and remember those who served and died. My mother's father was 'over there' on the Western Front - he came back. We also never forget the incompetent fuckwits who led us. That has become a serious part of the Aussie Spirit - we as a Nation intensely dislike incompetent fuckwits.