What medieval authors actually meant in using the term 'milities' is incredibly controversial within historical circles. It's really fraught so avoid it.
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When is meaningless since it's abundantly clear that the medieval authors didn't use the same way the Romans did anymore so than the medieval author used 'ballistae' to refer to torsion weapons which we know they didn't have.
I mean, the root question here is how the word is going to be interpreted in a modern context, right? If anything, its classical meaning is likely to dominate overs medieval usage, if just because most Latin dictionaries are classically focused. Classical use seems relevant.
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Ah..but Prof Paul was explicit about the medieval period. And of course the medieval period had....sailors in a military context and they didn't used 'miles' or any variation to refer to them. So it's baseless to suggest it as unified term for the various modern forces
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