Polemology

Quick meaning: Polemology is a noun meaning The study of human conflict and war.

Meaning

The study of human conflict and war.

Example Sentences

Against such polemologies, we find the [Michel] Foucault of Society Must be Defended posing the problem of war and its relation to modern political power in starkly different terms of a problematisation.

POLEMOLOGY. The Principles of War exhibited in the Practice of the Camp, and as developed in a Series of General Orders of the Duke of Wellington; with parallel Orders of George II. Duke of Marlborough, &c. &c. 8vo.

Strategy as calculus on the one hand, and strategy as manipulation/manoeuvre on the other: these are two types presupposing two kinds of polemology. The two conceptions of strategy are in fact derived from two ways of thinking about war.

In the language of international economic relations the use of the terms employed in the field of polemology occurs more and more frequently. People speak of warm and cold economic wars, guerrillas, financial and commercial aggression, economic security, economic peace-keeping, and so on.

Word Forms

• polemologies

Antonyms for polemology

Common opposites include irenology.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polemologist, hoplology, philology, politology, genopolitics, dogmatics.

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