"...their country’s military goals..."

There ya go, Dick. Nationalism.

By the way, no-one has said that journalists can't be right sometimes. But your argument that the way journalists use a word must mean that it's the right way to use it is a typical example of the logical fallacy we call argument from authority. In this case, journalists are not, as you seem to think, the arbiters of our language. You are casting them as precisely that. We expect journalists to be adept in the use of language because it's their job to communicate clearly. But I can pick up the Guardian on any day and find plenty of examples of well-meaning but clumsy journalism.