polemology

Definitions

The study of human conflict and war.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

6 more languages

Bahasa Indonesiapolemologi

Italianopolemologia

日本語戦争学

Nederlandspolemologie

Românăpolemologie

Русскийполемология

Examples

“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.”

“[I]f all the sciences were similarly subdivided, all use⟳ in classification would be lost by the multiplicity of the sciences; […] The Destructive, as well as the Industrial, instinct in Man would claim⟳ a separate⟳ science; and we should have⟳ a Polemology or Polemonomy, and about 10,000 other sciences.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If we desire a resolution of the paradoxes which liberal modernity throws at us, and which are the crux of this contemporary global civil war over the political constitution of life, we may want⟳ to establish⟳ other ways of construing the life of human being, ones which compromise its seemingly endless polemologies and messianic yearnings for Terror.”

“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 locates popular culture in a long (even archaic and nonhuman) tradition of warfare. The "ageless art" of tricks and ruses permeates the texts and practices comprising everyday life, a cat-and-mouse game with power that also produces innovation, creativity, invention. […] Polemology allows us to bring⟳ together media convergence with the history of communications warfare, especially as they involve⟳ the very social media often cited as features of convergence politics.”

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