Important shades in the meaning of military culture – an etymological study

This study aims to outline and critically analyze key shades in the contemporarymeaning of the military culture. An etymological study is conducted, based on a literaturereview of academic publications in the sphere of military culture. Furthermore, text miningwas performed in the bodies of deliberately selected publications in order to explore thecontemporary tendencies in developing of the professional language in this sphere. Anelaborate set of interconnected, rich shades in the meaning of the military culture areidentified, based on the reviewed scientific literature, organized and depicted by creating auseful mind-map. On this base an overarching contemporary definition of the aforementionedterm is proposed. The identified items from the set of the reviewed scientific publications inthis study are discoverable as open access documents on the first ten electronic pages in theacademic database of Google Scholar. Seven shades in the meaning of the military cultureare identified. The latter and their attributes are logically arranged by means of mind-map.Finally, a new overarching definition of military culture was formulated, considering itssimultaneous realizations on different levels, its cultural forms, functions, pursued aimsand means of their accomplishment, modernity in its stakeholder management, and itsmain impacting factor, i.e. the capability to switch between two alternative states of society