POLEMOLOGY noun (poh-luh-mol-uh-jee)

noun
1. the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.


Quotes

Closely related to the surge of interest in aggressive human behavior is the rise of a new science: polemology.
--*Walter Sullivan,*"An Attack on Man the Aggressor," New York Times, August 26, 1968


For the study of Greek warfare, or the polemology of ancient Greece, cannot be separated from the project of a general, very broadly political history of ancient Greek civic mentality, social structure and economic organization.
--*Paul Cartledge,*Spartan Reflections, 2001



Origin

Polemology was first recorded in 1935–40. It comes from Greek pólemos “war” and -logy, a combining form used in the names of bodies of knowledge.