ABSTRACT
This chapter positions Military Humanities as an interpretive field concerned with context, meaning, and judgement in the study of armed forces, and introduces Digital Military Humanities (DMH) as an approach that uses transparent, reproducible analysis to support that inquiry. It traces the historical development of Digital Humanities, emphasising how the field’s multimodal, data-intensive turn has widened the methodological repertoire available for studying military organisations. The chapter then examines how digitisation, academisation, and the expansion of online repositories have repositioned Professional Military Education (PME) organisations as potential hubs for DMH by combining research capability, governed collections, and routine scholarly dissemination. A case study using several decades of research monographs from the US Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) demonstrates how scalable text-as-data methods can inform humanistic questions while remaining attuned to methodological limits and ethical constraints. The analysis highlights how reproducible pipelines, documented workflows, and de-identified aggregates can be integrated into PME teaching to strengthen professional judgement, methodological literacy, and civil–military understanding. The chapter argues that digital practices enhance rather than displace interpretive education by making reasoning transparent, auditable, and open to inspection. It concludes by specifying institutional conditions for implementation-staff capability, data governance, and stable infrastructures, and by outlining how PME organisations can collaborate with civilian universities and military archives to support DMH as a distinctive component of professional formation.
