Research is the foundation of teaching. At MILAC applied research is pursued in six areas. Research findings flow seamlessly into the lessons and work of the career officers.

• Leadership – theory and practice (principles and application)
• Leadership ethics / leadership responsibility / military ethics
• Conflict and crisis management
• Intercultural leadership
• Communication and leadership processes in social economics and military settings
• Leadership and communication in crises and extreme situation

• Comparative history of warfare and the development of armed forces of the Western world in the ninceteenth and twentieth centuries
• The transnational history of military knowledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• The history of the Swiss army in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• Military thinking in Switzerland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• German warfare in the age of the World Wars

• Military and economic analysis of the Russian Federation
• Russo-Ukrainian war
• Security of critical infrastructures
• Security of supply
• Institutional economics

• Implementation, evaluation and further development of assessment centres in various areas of management selection
  
• Quality characteristics of selection and assessment processes (e.g. evaluation of instruments for militia cadre selection)
• Key motivational factors and ways of influencing them
• Influence of personality factors on job satisfaction and success
• Negotiation management and strategies and persuasion techniques in a military context
• Stress and stress management in a military context
• Recording and training of resilience in the military
• Values and virtues in the army and their impact on military education and organisational culture
• Coaching of military professional cadres

• Public opinion in foreign affairs, national security and defense strategy
• The Swiss Armed Forces transformation and militia system
  
• Civil-military relations
  
• Recruitment and personnel retention
• Cultural Diversity in Armed Forces
• Social media and military

• History of strategy and theory of war ("strategic theory")
• War in Ukraine: Operations analysis, forecasting and geopolitical consequences
• Armed conflicts in the MENA region and irregular warfare
• Development of Chinese Armed Forces : Global Presence and Strategic Cooperation
  
• Transformation of the Swiss armed forces and their core competence of defence, since the end of the Cold War