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Militology is the study of military principles. In particular this has come to mean their application within a commercial business environment.

Etymology
The word ‘militology’ derives from the joining together of two words. The former part comes from the Latin militaris (from Latin miles meaning ‘soldier’) but is of uncertain etymology, one suggestion being derived from *mil-it- - going in a body or mass.[3] The latter part is ology, a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in -λογία (-logia) to commonly mean ‘study’.[1] When conjoined and in their modern context the words mean the ‘study of the military’.

History and Background
In 1958, a US Air Force study research and development community urged that existing service doctrine should be replaced by a new field that could be called “militology”. However, it is in more recent usage that the term has been popularised, notably by The Economist in its article, ‘The March of Militology’. This article outlined the growing use of the word by business leaders and organisations to describe the modern practice of applying military principles to commercial environments.

Usage in Commerce
In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, corporate leaders questioned the conventional and long-held wisdom that orgainsational strategy should be solely focus on the delivery of shareholder profits. One financial services organisation led almost exclusively by former military officers postulated that the export and implementation of the structure, doctrine, operations and tactics they had been taught within the military would lay a better foundation for corporate growth than conventional business strategy, thus delivering better outcomes to shareholders. They argued that a focus on stronger core cultural values, a mission driven culture, leadership at all levels and the close-unit cohesion characteristic within the western military would lead to superior corporate outcomes. The success of this firm in becoming the fastest growing UK financial services business between 2008 and 2012 caused substantial initial and ongoing interest and study of this practice. Today such practice has become the subject of academic study at EDNEC business school in France and is the topic of many texts such as Leadership Lessons from West Point, From the Battlefield to the Boardroom, and The Navy SEAL Entrepreneur. Militology is the study of the military.