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Al-Mansoury, Ismail, and Malin Sandén. "ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY AND IMAGE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA : A study of how young adults perceive the Swedish Armed Forces." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-188103.

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This study aims to investigate how social media are used to communicate organizational identity and image. The studied research question is how do young adults perceive the identity and image of the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) through the organization's use of social media. The research on organizational identity within government agencies and people’s perception on organizations is limited. Therefore, we aim to expand the research on this subject using organizational identity as a theoretical concept. As organizations exists in the social context of today’s digital society, it is valuable to investigate how an organization’s identity and image is perceived externally. We conducted semi-structured reflective interviews with young adults and with an organization representative. Our findings show that young adults view the SAF’s social media use to improve their image and for recruitment purposes. In conclusion, our findings show that this social media use and perceptions of it, are reflective with the theories of organizational identity and image and highlights the importance of the external organizational image.
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Rupkalvis, Carol Anne Cude 1946. "THE RELATIONSHIP OF HEALTH WITH ROLE ATTITUDES, ROLE STRAIN, AND SOCIAL SUPPORT IN ENLISTED MILITARY MOTHERS." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276399.

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Agbedahin, Komlan. "Young veterans, not always social misfits: a sociological discourse of Liberian transmogrification experiences." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003104.

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This thesis examines the phenomenon of child-soldiering from a different perspective. It seeks to challenge, using a novel approach, earlier studies on the roles of former child-soldiers in post-war societies. It focuses on the subjectivity of young veterans, that is war veterans formerly associated with armed forces and groups as children during the 14-year gruesome civil war which bedevilled Liberia between 1989 and 2003. This civil war claimed roughly 250,000 lives, and saw the active participation of approximately 21,000 child-soldiers. This thesis departs from previous works which mostly painted an apocalyptic picture of young veterans, and explores the nexus between their self-agency, Foucauldian technologies of the self and their transformation in the post-war society. The majority of previous scholarly works which have dominated the field of child-soldiering dwelt on the impact of armed conflict on the child-soldiers, the negative consequences, the causes of child-soldiering, and the rehabilitation and reintegration of the young veterans after their disarmament and demobilization. What this thesis seeks to do however, is to establish that, rather than considering the young veterans simply as social misfits, distraught and dispirited human beings, it should be noted that young veterans through their agency, are capable of ensuring their reintegration into their war-ravaged societies. Sadly, these young former fighters’ self-agency and technologies of the self in defining their civilian trajectories have often been overshadowed by vaunted humanitarian aid and multilayered war-profiteering. This study is underpinned by interpretive constructivism, symbolic interactionism, social identity theory, sociometer theory and expectancy theory, and sheds light on how young veterans’ self-agency, instrumental coalitions, and decision-making processes, synergistically shifted the negative identities foisted on them as a result of their participation in the war.
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Buttsworth, Sara. "Body count : the politics of representing the gendered body in combat in Australia and the United States." University of Western Australia. History Discipline Group, 2003. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2004.0023.

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This thesis is an exploration of the construction of the gendered body in combat in the late twentieth century, in Australia and the United States of America. While it is not a military history, aspects of military history, and representations of war and warriors are used as the vehicle for the analysis of the politics of representing gender. The mythic, the material and the media(ted) body of the gendered warrior are examined in the realms of ‘real’ military histories and news coverage, and in the ‘speculative’ arena of popular culture. Through this examination, the continuities and ruptures inherent in the gendered narratives of war and warriors are made apparent, and the operation of the politics of representing gender in the public arena is exposed. I have utilised a number of different approaches from different disciplines in the construction of this thesis: feminist and non-feminist responses to women in the military; aspects of military histories and mythologies of war specific to Australia and the United States; theories on the construction of masculinities and femininities; approaches to gender identity in popular news media, film and television. Through these approaches I have sought to bring together the history of women in the military institutions of Australia and the United States, and examine the nexus between the expansion of women’s military roles and the emergence of the female warrior hero in popular culture. I have, as a result, analysed the constructions of masculinity and femininity that inform the ongoing association of the military with ‘quintessential masculinity’, and deconstructed the real and the mythic corporeal capacities of the gendered body so important to warrior identity. Regardless, or perhaps because of, the importance of gender politics played out in and through the representations of soldier identity, all their bodies must be considered speculative.
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Resteigne, Delphine H. R. G. G. "Vers une analyse sociologique des opérations militaires multinationales: regards croisés en Afghanistan, en Bosnie et au Liban." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210260.

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Au cours de ces dernières années, les forces armées de différents pays ont de plus en plus été amenées à travailler sur les mêmes théâtres d’opérations. Cette collaboration militaire multinationale, même si elle n’est pas souhaitée par tous, s’est généralisée à l’ensemble des missions militaires. C’est ce cadre multinational et de spécialisation croissante, mais aussi le caractère interagence à travers les contacts entretenus avec les intervenants civils et les populations locales qui caractérisent les missions actuelles. Et, même si les décisions d’engagement restent fixées en dernier ressort par les gouvernements nationaux, la configuration multinationale et modulaire des forces armées est devenue inévitable. Aussi, en choisissant comme objet d’étude les militaires belges déployés dans des opérations militaires multinationales, on s’est attaché à analyser, d’une part, comment se passe le travail dans ces environnements à risques et fortement diversifiés et, d’autre part, le type de collaboration observée entre les contingents nationaux.

Tout comme les autres organisations, les armées de différents pays se regroupent au sein de task forces spécifiques et temporaires qui nécessitent une configuration organisationnelle plus flexible ainsi qu’une culture d’organisation davantage adaptée à ces nouveaux cadres de travail. Aussi, l’objectif de la première partie est, précisément, de se pencher sur ces deux dimensions, structurelle et culturelle, de l’organisation militaire belge pour comprendre ensuite les interactions sociales observées dans les milieux opérationnels étudiés. Dans un premier chapitre, on s’attache à montrer les changements rencontrés dans la plupart des organisations militaires des pays industrialisés mais aussi, plus spécifiquement, les réformes institutionnelles entreprises pour moderniser les forces armées belges. Le deuxième chapitre aborde ensuite les éléments culturels que l’on retrouve au cœur de l’organisation militaire. Traditionnellement considérée comme un ensemble homogénéisé par une culture organisationnelle forte et cohésive, dans une perspective de différenciation, on relèvera les éléments croissants de diversité culturelle interne qui rendent l’organisation plus diverse tout en rendant la coordination de l’ensemble plus délicate.

La deuxième partie- empirique- aborde trois études de cas qui ont été menées dans un contexte géographique et institutionnel particulier :en Afghanistan pour la mission ISAF, au Liban pour la mission UNIFIL et en Bosnie-Herzégovine pour la mission Althea. Au niveau de la récolte des données, l’approche méthodologique suivie est de nature essentiellement inductive et combine différentes méthodes de récolte de données (observation et entretiens sur le terrain, questionnaires quantitatifs, rapports de lessons learned, articles de presse, etc.). En procédant par analyses comparatives et en se basant sur les récits, les pratiques observées, les conversations informelles, ces approches permettent de mieux comprendre la perception subjective de la réalité sociale par les militaires ainsi que les interactions observées. Les données relatives à la mission menée par l’OTAN en Afghanistan ont été collectées à Kaboul où les militaires belges étaient déployés sur l’aéroport aux côtés d’une trentaine de nations. Ces données ont notamment servi de base pour appliquer le modèle des rôles managériaux de Mintzberg à des managers belges opérant dans des circonstances exceptionnelles. Dans un second temps, on s’est également penché sur l’étude des équipes de reconstruction provinciale qui ont été déployées dans la plupart des provinces afghanes et sur la délicate collaboration entre les acteurs civils et militaires à Kunduz. La deuxième étude de cas, relative à la mission de l’ONU au sud-Liban, s’intéresse d’une part à la cohabitation belgo-polonaise au camp de Tibnine et, d’autre part, au fonctionnement de l’état-major multinational de la force à Naqoura. Enfin, le séjour en Bosnie-Herzégovine a permis d’étudier le déploiement de militaires belges dans un cadre européen, sous l’égide de l’EUFOR. Le troisième et dernier chapitre de cette partie fait, en quelque sorte, la synthèse des différents éléments, théoriques et empiriques, relevé et les combine dans une tentative de modélisation théorique des principaux facteurs de coopération militaire multinationale.

Sur base de nombreux extraits des données recueillies in situ, ce travail s’attache à montrer que la multinationalisation des milieux militaires opérationnels présente non seulement des avantages mais aussi de nouveaux challenges. Elle est ainsi fortement appréciée par les ‘petits’ pays, comme la Belgique, qui peuvent ainsi prendre part simultanément à différentes missions en mettant à disposition des capacités limitées mais spécialisées dans certaines niches de compétences. A travers les synergies opérées, ces formes de collaboration permettent de limiter les coûts liés aux déploiements opérationnels tout en assurant une certaine crédibilité par rapport aux engagements internationaux. Toutefois, même si cette multinationalisation est plus fréquente que par le passé, en raison de difficultés diverses (linguistiques, logistiques, caveats, etc.), elle reste encore souvent marginale au niveau des plus petites unités organisationnelles. C’est généralement à partie d’un certain niveau hiérarchique ou de spécialisation que l’on retrouve des militaires étrangers travaillant dans des équipes multinationales. Le fait que la majorité des militaires belges continuent surtout à travailler avec des collègues nationaux n’implique pas pour autant qu’ils n’ont aucun contact avec les militaires étrangers. Vivant dans des espaces confinés et, à l’exception des contacts virtuels avec la famille et les proches, les relations avec les autres militaires représentent leur seule vie sociale pendant plusieurs mois et c’est donc aussi et surtout à ce niveau que l’influence du contexte multinational se fait sentir.

Dans la lignée de d’Iribarne qui parlait de logique de l’arrangement en faisant référence à la culture belge, les comportements des militaires semblent autant régulés par cette conception particulière de la coopération et cette recherche d’accords informels que par le respect des ordres. Mais c’est sans doute aussi le sentiment d’appartenir à une organisation militaire dont l’influence est plus limitée qui semble encourager ses membres à adopter des comportements propices au développement de relations inter-organisationnelles ou de ce que l’on a qualifié de logique de la débrouillardise.


Doctorat en sciences sociales, Orientation sociologie
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Hale, H. C. "Social representations of masculinities in the British Armed Forces." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599843.

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Within this culture there is a protected version of masculinity. Military rituals, rites, practices, values and structure reflect accepted conceptions of masculinity and femininity. Through focusing on social representations (Moscovici, 1984; 1988b) as a system of ideas, practices and values, this study questions how social representations act to establish an order that allows military men to orientate themselves in their social and material world. What are the strategies that military personnel enact in attempting to develop and sustain a masculine identity? What are and how do specific aspects of military culture contribute to the construction of military masculinities? And how do female military personnel resist or adopt masculine discourses or identities? 71 semi-structured interviews were conducted with 53 male and 18 female personnel of various ranks working in the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force. Six focus groups were also carried out (10 male, 6 female). The results were analysed using Atlas ti, a computer package designed for analysing qualitative data. Analyses of the present narratives have indicated that an outcome of militarisation is the construction of military masculinities. The military rebuilds or reframes masculinities as a means of meeting the aims of the process of militarisation. Further to this, dimensions of military masculinities can be distinguished as, a) qualities and attributes, and b) distinctive in practice. In particular, discipline and interdependence, and the initial military training played a prominent role in the development of hegemonic military masculinities. Through employing the theory of social representations, this study explored how individuals and groups construct out of the diversity and unfamiliarity of a military social space, a predictable stable world.
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Kocarslan, Eylem. "The Applicability Of The Turkish Armed Forces." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606247/index.pdf.

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This study was conducted to estabilish the validity of the Turkish Armed Forces Personality Battery (TAFPB) in selecting Turkish Air Force Academy (TAFA) cadets. Before the data collection some items of TAFPB were made suitable for the TAFA cadets by SME&rsquo
s. Data were collected from first, second and third year students on TAFPB, 16 PF, psychomotor scores and objective and subjective performance measures. The data of 647 TAFA cadets were evaluated. The correlation matrixes, means and SD&rsquo
S of this study is found consistent with the TAFPB applications of Sumer et al. (2000) and Kale (2004) in military settings. TAFPB is face valid because of the common aims of TAFA and TAFPB, selecting ideal officer. TAFPB is content valid because all traits are determined by using job analysis and the relevance and importance of the traits are scored by SME&rsquo
s. Criterion-related validity was measured by analysing the correlations of TAFPB with objective (academic and sport score) and subjective (commander evaluation, flight, military score) performance. Correlations, and a series of regressions pointed out that TAFPB predicts significantly objective performance. TAFPB has incremental validity over 16 PF and BSI in explaining objective performance. The source and class variances were compared by ANOVA. Cadets from military source had significantly higher scores on 11 factors of TAFPB and on performance factors. Moreover they got significantly low scores on BSI. Military high school graduates seems more preferable by selecting cadets. To conclude, TAFPB is a valid test for TAFA.
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Lamonte, Jon. "Attitudes in Britain towards its Armed Forces and war 1960-2000." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1332/.

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From the aftermath of Suez to the Kosovo campaign, Britain lost most of its colonies and ended up taking a moral interventionist stance on the world stage with the US its major ally. Against that contextual background, this thesis considers the attitudes in Britain towards its Armed Forces and war from 1960 to 2000. Using a range of lenses, the paper highlights the complexity of change. Homosexuality was a scandalous issue for society in the 1960s, such that the 1967 Act which decriminalised it was not really widely accepted. For the Armed Forces, searches for homosexuals increased on grounds of security. The Act of Remembrance, as recorded in churches, shows the mixed approach of the clergy to war, particularly dependent on their own experience, and also the change in mood from a religious service to a secular one. In the notable campaigns that did take place over the period, Borneo, the Falklands, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Gulf War, a methodical view is taken of opinion polls, press coverage, and letters pages to establish trends at the political, elite and public levels. The media has been used as a reference throughout the thesis as a measure of opinion, but here is analysed for its own biases and approaches, since it has a clear effect on people’s opinions, both from fiction and fact. Overall, the thesis paints a complex web of declining interest in defence issues, greater self-interest amongst many, increasing secularisation, and greater tolerance, yet conversely, points to underlying themes of pride in individual servicemen and the institution of the Armed Forces.
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Domazos, Efthymios. "The choice social representation and the formation of the Hellenic Armed Forces /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/MBAPR/2008/Dec/08Dec%5FDomazos%5FMBA.pdf.

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"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration from the Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008."
Advisor(s): Eitelberg, Mark ; Hudgens, Bryan. "December 2008." "MBA professional report"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on January 28, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255). Also available in print.
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Gray, Harriet. "Militarism in the everyday : responses to domestic abuse in the British Armed Forces." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3230/.

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This thesis is an empirical study of responses to domestic abuse in marriages between civilian women, and men serving in the British Armed Forces. It draws on 45 in-depth interviews with victim-survivors and perpetrators of abuse and with support workers in both military and civilian roles. The thesis is informed by feminist theorisations of domestic abuse which identify the gender inequalities at its roots. I explore the ways in which aspects of everyday militarism shape responses to domestic abuse in this context, including the impact both of hegemonic forms of military gendered identity, and of the structural violences which shape the lives of civilian women married to servicemen in the British military. In addition, I draw attention to some of the depoliticising ways in which the causes of domestic abuse have been understood within the British military community, and point to the impact that these depoliticising notions have on broader attempts to engage politically with domestic abuse and with militarism. The thesis highlights the linkages which exist between multiple forms of gendered violence which occur on different ‘scales’ from the intimate to the global. I draw connections between the gendered project of militarism and the everyday gendered relations of inequality which shape the social contexts in which the individuals who participated in the study responded to abuse. I argue that the common failure to recognise and to respond to domestic abuse as a gendered social and political problem in this context serves to both depoliticise and to reproduce everyday forms of militarism and thus, that it plays a role in the enabling of the use of armed violence on the geopolitical stage.
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Henning, Victor. "Jungle warfare : According to the Armed Forces theory of fundamental capabilities." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-4004.

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Aujourd'hui, les conflits s'enflamment vite et peuvent devenir importants dans un court laps de temps. La tendance des armées occidentales est d'avoir une capacité de déploiement rapide et d'être en mesure de mener des opérations militaires quelque soit le type d’environnement afin de stopper un conflit s’initialisant. La capacité de se battre dans la jungle est donc plus actuelle que jamais. Mon travail est une analyse de données qualitatives du combat en jungle dans laquelle j’utilise les principes fondamentaux des forces armées suédoises1 afin de décomposer le sujet et d’obtenir un meilleur aperçu de la guerre dans la jungle. J'utilise également comme méthode l'observation participante en vue d’obtenir une meilleure compréhension de cette dernière. Mon travail est surtout basé sur le plan tactique afin de voir comment une section agit dans ce milieu. J’ai abouti à quatre conclusions: - Pour être en mesure de mener une guerre dans la jungle, vous devez être formé, acclimaté et préparé. Si vous ne l'êtes pas, votre pire ennemi sera la jungle elle-même. - Dans la jungle, la façon de faire guerre revient aux chefs de groupe et aux soldats plus que quiconque, en raison des courtes distances et des difficultés à poser un appui-feu. - Gagner les coeurs et les esprits2 des indigènes est la clé de la mobilité afin de recueillir des renseignements ainsi qu’une certaine autonomie. - Il est important d'avoir la suprématie aérienne et d’être en mesure d'utiliser les rivières, en raison de l'avantage gagné par l’utilisation des hélicoptères et des bateaux. En outre, l’ennemi aura un gros désavantage s’il ne peut pas les utiliser.
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Button, David B. "Canadian Forces families : social impacts of accommodation policy." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27849.

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Since World War II the Canadian military community has evolved to meet the needs of a permanent military force and has changed from the preserve of the single male to include women and families. Thus the Department of National Defence (DND) has become concerned with the welfare of military families as an integral part of military preparedness. A variety of accommodation policies were formulated and programs established to satisfy the needs of these families who worked and lived in such a unique environment. These policies and programs have emphasised housing and related infrastructure, and included both physical and social services. They have, in part, enabled DND to relieve many family related problems despite the disruptive lifestyle. However, as a result of evolutionary changes in the Canadian Forces, the lifestyle of Canadians and the general economic situation, concern has arisen that current DND policies relating to housing and service provision may no longer be appropriate or effective. This thesis looks at the lifestyle and unique difficulties of military families in order to evaluate the social impacts on the families resulting from accommodation policy. Although the general question of whether DND should even be in the business of creating and maintaining its own communities is complex and requires the consideration of many factors, this thesis limits itself to the social impacts of accommodation policies. Since it is generally perceived that social concerns have received limited consideration in the past, this thesis develops a framework to consider and include such concerns. This is done through: secondary research of analogous civilian communities and other military communities; primary data from recent DND family studies; informal interviews with families and decision-makers in the military community; and, the personal experience of the author as a member of the military community. There are four main findings. First, a framework based on Lichfield's Planning Balance Sheet methodology is a suitable and appropriate tool for assisting decision-makers in making informed choices. Second, the creation of a Non-Public Housing Society responding to DND but operated at arms-length, is seen as a viable housing policy alternative which deserves further study. Third, the social impacts on military families resulting from the municipalization of physical services are not significant. And fourth,.; social services when provided internally appear more successful. The unique lifestyle of military families is linked to operational effectiveness and military preparedness through the work/family environment. The importance of social planning on this interface is emphasized to encourage decision-makers to explicitly incorporate social planning into the decision-making process. The Planning Balance Sheet methodology is suggested as an appropriate one for this purpose.
Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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Persson, Tobias, and Emil Andersson. "Informationssäkerhetsrisker och organisatoriska sanktioner vid användandet av privata smarta enheter i Försvarsmakten : En studie om användning av privata smarta enheter." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413565.

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Denna uppsats undersöker intentionen att använda smarta enheter i tjänst hos personal i Försvarsmakten, som är en organisation med högt behov av verksamhetssäkerhet. Verksamhetens säkerhet är direkt beroende av hur personal inom verksamheten agerar utifrån ett säkerhetsperspektiv. Syftet är att belysa hur Försvarsmakten förmedlar informationssäkerheten kring smarta enheter och hur personalen påverkas utifrån det. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom en kvalitativ fallstudie i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer med två olika grupper. Resultatet analyseras med hjälp av ett teoretiskt ramverk bestående av Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) och General Deterrence Theory (GDT) i syfte att belysa vad det är som avgör personalens beteende. Teorierna utgår från att beteendet påverkas av rädsla för sanktioner eller för hot mot verksamhet och individ. Resultatet visar att aspekter från de båda teorierna är närvarande hos personalen och att det som påverkar den enskildes agerande beror på vilken information organisationen delgett och individernas personliga uppfattningar. Personalen är medveten om de risker som följer av användningen av smarta enheter, men enheterna används ändå i stor utsträckning. Faktorer som spelar in i intentionen är kunskapsnivån, befattningen individen besitteroch arbetsområdet individen verkar inom.
This paper examines the intention to use smart devices by staff in the Swedish Armed Forces,which is an organization with a high need for operational security. The security of the business isdependent on how staff within the business behave, in a security perspective. The purpose is toelucidate how the Swedish Armed Forces conveys information security regarding smart devicesand how their staff are affected. The empirical material has been collected through a qualitativecase study in the form of semi-structured interviews with two different groups. The results areanalyzed using a theoretical framework consisting of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) andGeneral Deterrence Theory (GDT) in order to elucidate what determines the behavior of the staff.The theories are based on the fact that behavior is affected by fear of sanctions or threats to thebusiness and individuals. The result shows that aspects in both theories are present in the staffbehavior. What influences the individual's actions depends on what information the organizationhas shared and the personal perceptions of the individuals. Factors that play into the intention arethe level of knowledge, the position the individual possesses and the area of work the individualoperates within.
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Jansson, Natalie. "The Peacekeepers' Publicity - A quantitative content analysis of Swedish newspapers' coverage of the Swedish Armed Forces in Mali." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21081.

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The aim of this study was to get a deeper understanding of the Swedish newspapers’ coverage of the armed forces’ participation in the missions EUTM and MINUSMA in Mali during the years of 2013-2019. To concretize the aim, I formulated five research questions regarding the context, focus, sources, origin and scope of the articles. The method chosen for the study was a quantitative content analysis, which was supported by the theoretical concepts of agenda setting and framing. The data included 117 articles from four of the largest Swedish newspapers; Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Svenska Dagbladet. The result of the analysis stated that most of the articles were published in the event of an attack and focused on injuries or casualties. These articles were often written by journalists based in Sweden, or by a news agency. Very few articles were written by a correspondent on site in Mali, but the ones that did were descriptive of the mission and included the voices of several military personnel and given a lot of space in the newspapers.
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Eriksson, AnnaVera. "Non-Unitary Actors in Intrastate Armed Conflict : A Quantitative Analysis of Civilian Defense Forces’ Effect on Intrastate War Duration." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-341451.

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Bjersér, Sofia. ""I have not achieved a feeling of being masculine.” : An exploration of masculinities in the Swedish Armed Forces." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-46021.

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Historically and presently most people employed in military forces worldwide are men. With a focus on peacekeeping and equality, the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF) aim to recruit more women. But even as gender issues become a central focus of the SwAF, policy is mostly aimed towards women despite most employees being men. This study came about by leaning on feminist scholars’ arguments that men and masculinities need to be examined and involved when working towards positive peace, so that they do not remain naturalized and become unidentified obstacles. To achieve this aim, this thesis draws on semi-structured interviews with Swedish Peacekeepers and present a complex, contradictory puzzle of how masculinities are performed, perceived, and reproduced. Masculinities are admired but ridiculed, used as a tool for battle but an obstacle for rehabilitation, a source for deep emotional bonds and rigorously performed to turn off emotionally, and is mainly existing in the eyes of the beholder but seldom seen in oneself. The results support theoretical complexity of militarized masculinities and confirm that militarism is not inherent or come natural to men but is a performative, social construction.
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Debos, Marielle. "Des combattants entre deux guerres : sociologie politique du métier des armes au Tchad." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009IEPP0037.

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Comment les armes deviennent-elles une forme ordinaire de la contestation et un mode de vie ? Fondée sur une enquête de terrain de dix mois au Tchad, la présente thèse a pour objectif de comprendre pourquoi et comment les armes sont devenues un métier, exercé alternativement ou simultanément dans les forces régulières, les mouvements rebelles et le banditisme de grand chemin. Nous problématisons comme un métier l’activité exercée par les individus qui vivent des armes et qui ont appris et développé des savoirs et savoir-faire ainsi que des registres de justification spécifiques, qui ont trait à la guerre et aux pratiques violentes d’extorsion. La démarche que nous proposons consiste à resituer les conflits dans une temporalité plus large pour étudier ce qui se joue hors des temps et des espaces de guerre. Nous montrons tout d’abord que si ce métier a été réinventé au fil des décennies sans jamais disparaître, c’est qu’il n’est pas uniquement lié à la guerre, mais aussi à une économie politique et à un mode de gouvernement marqués par la violence. Il apparaît ensuite que ce métier est régi par des règles et structuré par des frontières : la fongibilité des statuts de militaire, combattant et bandit de grand chemin n’empêche pas l’existence de puissantes hiérarchies sociales et politiques. Enfin, notre recherche nous amène à considérer les modes de gouvernement à l’œuvre au sein d’une armée paradoxalement non disciplinaire et d’un État façonné par une trajectoire historique violente. La sociologie politique du métier des armes souligne l’importance des éléments non directement articulés à la guerre pour analyser les conflits et les sorties de crise
How does bearing arms become a regular form of expressing contestation and a way of life? Based on ten months of fieldwork carriedout in Chad, the objective of my dissertation research has been to understand why and how arms-bearing has become a craft practicedby soldiers, rebels, and road bandits. The boundaries among these statuses are blurred, such that they can be held alternately or simultaneously by a single individual. This thesis analyses as a craft the activities carried out by individuals, who live from the gun and who have learned and developed specific sets of knowledge and practical expertise, as well as modes of justification regarding war and violent extortion. My approach aims to situate conflicts within broader temporalities to understand what is at stake beyond times and spaces of war. First, I show that the craft of arms has been a social institution over the past century because it is linked not only to warbut also to a political economy and a mode of government, which are characterized by violence. Second, I argue that this craft isregulated by rules and boundaries: while the statuses of individuals are fluid, the military sphere itself is structured by powerful social and political hierarchies. Third, I reflect on how a paradoxically non-disciplinary army and a state shaped by a violent historical trajectory are governed. The political sociology of the craft of arms shows that patterns which are not directly linked to war are crucial to analyze conflicts and post-conflict situations
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Rydh, Magdalena. "En interoperabel sjukvårdskedja? : En komperativ undersökning av Sveriges och NATO:s sjukvårdskedjor och doktriner." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-776.

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Interoperabilitet blir viktigare och viktigare för Sveriges del, även för funktionen sjukvård. Denna uppsats kommer att behandla likheter och skillnader mellan sjukvårdsdoktriner, handböcker och reglementen med NATO:s och framförallt Norges motsvarigheter, för att undersöka om den svenska Försvarsmakten sjukvårdsorganisation är interoperabel, och för att finna saker som kan förändras för att öka effektiviteten och interoperabiliteten. Under uppsatsen dras slutsatser som att svenska Försvarsmakten tagit åt sig stora delar av de kunskaper som NATO tidigare har gjort. Sverige ”kopierar” delar av NATO:s doktrin för sjukvård, NATO AJP-4,10 Allied joint medical support doctrine. Saker som skulle kunna påverka samarbete med andra länder på ett negativt sätt, t.ex. att alla länder har egna nationella regler samt vissa olikheter i doktriner och handböcker som hur vi i Sverige sätter färger på skadade vid olyckor med en stor mängd skadade, medan detta inte nämns i NATO:s doktrin diskuteras också i uppsatsen. Vi i Sverige har även vid dessa stora olyckor satt tidpunkter för när patienterna kan behövas vård, vilket inte heller går att finna i NATO:s doktrin. Väldigt få skillnader har hittats mellan Sveriges och NATO:s sjukvårdsorganisationer och arbetssätt. Däremot är likheterna väldigt många, vilket gör att samarbete mellan Sverige och NATO länder kan vara mycket effektivt. Detta gör att man i slutsatserna och diskussionen kan läsa om hur svenska Försvarsmaktens sjukvård är interoperabel, men självklart finns saker att förbättra för att öka effektiviteten.


Interoperability becomes more and more important for Sweden, also for the medical. This paper will discuss the similarities and differences between medical doctrines, manuals, regulations, etc. with NATO and particularly the Norwegian similarities, to investigate if the Swedish Armed Forces health care organization are interoperable, and to find things that can be changed to increase efficiency and to be more interoperable. In this paper the author’s conclusions that the Swedish Armed Forces have access to large parts of the knowledge that NATO had done. Sweden "copy" part of NATO's doctrine for medical care, NATO AJP-4, 10 Allied joint medical support doctrine. The author also sees things that could affect the cooperation with other countries in a negative way. Things like that all countries have their own national rules and some differences in doctrine and manuals like how we in Sweden puts colour on damaged in accidents with a large number wounded, while this is not mentioned in the NATO doctrine. We in Sweden have also set times for when patients may need treatment in major accidents, which again can be found in the NATO doctrine. Very few differences have existed between Sweden and NATO's healthcare organizations and practices. However, many similarities, which makes cooperation between Sweden and NATO countries can be very effective. This means that the conclusions and the discussion can be read on the Swedish Armed Forces' medical care is quite interoperable, but obviously there are things to improve in order to increase efficiency.

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Smolicz, Paulina Izabela. "Swedish Armed Forces on Social Media : A study of Livgardet official Facebook page and 12:e motoriserade skyttebataljonen unofficial Facebook page." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157005.

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The Swedish Armed Forces as a big public actor own different media channels and promote life as a soldier from different angles. They create marketing campaigns, which are available widely on YouTube or Facebook. The increased activity on social media platforms, especially Facebook, have created a field for research. There are multiple Facebook pages, from which one can acquire information regarding life at a given regiment. They can be divided into official and unofficial Facebook pages. The fascinating aspect of this division is how differently each of the Facebook pages approaches the audience and how differently they are shaping their strategic communication and reputation, despite owning officially issued guidelines on how the Swedish Armed Forces ought to be presented in the online world. Through multimodal analysis with a shift towards the systematic linguistic in the framework of Machin and Halliday, official Facebook page of Livgardet and unofficial Facebook page of 12:e motoriserade skyttebataljonen have been analyzed to see whether the messages that the Swedish Armed Forces are conveying are aligned. Adding netnography in the frame of Kozinets, the audience has been studied to inquire whether there is a different purpose of using the official and unofficial Facebook page.  The results of this study shows, that the unofficial Facebook page is coherent in a different way, they might not be following the strategic communication guidelines strictly, but they are coherent in their actions and posts, whereas the official Facebook page, which is strictly following the strategic communication guidelines and does not appear as coherent with their actions. At the same time, the audience is using the unofficial Facebook page reconnect with the memories they have from when they did their duty. On the other hand, the official Facebook page is used by the audience as a place to show their appreciation and pride in the Swedish Armed Forces.
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Lungu, Serban L. "The employment of the Armed Forces in cases of political or social violence : a comparison between the United States and Romania." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA358800.

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Thesis (M.A. in International Security and Civil-Military Relations) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998.
"December 1998." Thesis advisor(s): Maria Rasmussen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-144). Also available online.
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Uvelius, Karin. "Gender, Security and Conflict Resolution - a qualitative study of women and men's reasoning of decision-making and use of violence within the Swedish Armed Forces." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23345.

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This study sets out to examine how men and women within the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) reason about decision-making and the use of violence in relation to security and conflict resolution, and whether or not their reasoning differ. The study comprises a qualitative case study whereas the SAF has been identified as a critical case. The research takes off in theoretical fields such as; international relations, gender, security and feminism. With departure in essential-, standpoint- and difference feminism in particular, an analytical framework has been created. The core assumptions in the framework are: women are peaceful and prefer individual decision-making in relation to security and conflict resolution. Men on the contrary are violent and prefer individual decision-making. The validity of these assumptions is tested by ten qualitative interviews with five women and five men within the SAF. The finding of the study is that the SAF appears to socialize a similar behavior amongst their male and female co-workers. Hence, men and women within the forces seem to reason about security and conflict resolution in comparable ways. The feminist assumptions in the analytical framework are thus proven invalid. Nevertheless, the branches of the feminisms that depart from social construction rather than biological determinism are proven correct.
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Ottosson, Mikaela. "The inclusion of girls depends on women : A study of the inclusion of girls associated with armed forces and armed groups in DDR programs by women mediators in Colombia, the DRC and Somalia." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-443580.

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This thesis analyzes the relation between women mediators in peace negotiations and the inclusion of female child soldiers in disarm, demobilize and reintegrate (DDR) processes. Research shows that despite the adoption of UNSCR 1325 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, there is low participation of women in peace processes. Children, especially girls (Girls Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (GAAFAG), are often excluded from DDR programs due to not being seen as soldiers. This is not only an obstacle for lasting peace but it is also of importance to include them in the process as they have a human right to rehabilitation and reintegration after an armed conflict under Article 39 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Few studies have analyzed the relationship between women in peace negotiations and the inclusion of girls in the DDR process. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to study the effect women mediators can have on the inclusion or exclusion of children, specifically girls, in DDR programs after an armed conflict. The theory is that women involved in the peace process will broaden the issues of negotiations, bring those issues onto the official implementation agenda and ensure that specific issues are written into the agreement. This thesis suggests that because women have different experiences and priorities, women’s and children’s issues, such as including girls in the DDR process, will more likely be brought onto the implementation if women are involved. By taking the research question, what difference can women mediators make when it comes to the inclusion of GAAFAG in DDR programs? as a point of departure, the study analyses three cases: Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Somalia. Through the Structured Focused Comparison research design, the study asks questions to each case regarding important factors based on the theory; the resources, the mediators, local participation, and formal regulation. The study finds that the DDR process in Colombia both had more women involved and included more children, and girls, in the DDR process. Even though it cannot be fully verified, the results suggest that women involved in peace negotiations can lead to greater inclusion of GAAFAG in DDR processes. While not overlooking the importance of factors such as cultural and historical roots as well as international involvement, as these can affect the outcome as well.
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Berglöf, Stridh Maria, and Johanna Wågström. "The missing fit between ERP system and organizational structures : A qualitative case study of the implementation of PRIO in the Swedish Armed Forces." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-202566.

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ERP systems which initially were developed for manufacturing organizations have in recent years spread to public sector organization. It is put forward that public sector organization differ from private organization and this might affect how successfully an ERP system is implemented. ERP systems are rarely studied in public sector organization and few researchers have explored the fit between ERP system and organizational structures. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore what relationship that exists or do not exist between ERP system and organizational social structures in a military organization, and how this has affected the implementation and use. This is done through a qualitative case study of the Swedish Armed Forces with data from semi-structured interviews with 14 platoon commanders and 3 company commanders. The findings suggest that there is a misfit between the ERP system, PRIO, and the social structures in the organization which have made the implementation and use problematic. The technical shortcomings, such as the user interface, are not the main problem and employees might have been negative about the system anyway. This since platoon commanders and company commanders do not think platoon commanders are the best suited to do the tasks with PRIO.
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Huovinen, Johan. "Privatiseringens debatt : privatisering som en fortsättning av politiken med andra medel." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1499.

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Privata säkerhetsföretag verkar i dag i stor utsträckning etablerat sig som en del i eller parallellt med den västliga militära styrkestrukturen, framför allt i USA. Uppgifterna som de privata säkerhetsföretagen löser är till huvudsak uppgifter som traditionellt tidigare lösts av militära förband.Det övergripande syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och kartlägga debatten om privata säkerhetsföretag i USA. Min frågeställning är om inställningen till den privata aktören inom den militära styrkestrukturen förändrad och vad är det som debatteras rörande den pågående och ökande privatiseringen av den militära styrkestrukturen?För att ta mig an uppgiften på ett vetenskapligt sätt har jag valt att använda kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Jag har därför valt att utgå från Lennart J. Lundqvists breda tankar om privatiseringen som finns beskrivna i boken Politik som organisation och koppla dessa tankar till Bo Rothsteins modell för konkurrensen, ansvar och effektivitet mellan marknad och stat.Min huvudslutsats är att i USA debatteras inte huruvida inställningen till den privata aktören inom den militära styrkestrukturen är förändrad, utan privatisering är en del av politiken. Inställningen till de privata säkerhetsföretagen får, sett ur ett historiskt perspektiv från Kalla kriget slut, ses som vedertaget förändrad.
Private Security Companies seems to have established itself as a part of or parallel with western military structure, especially in US. Tasks traditionally solved by military units are today solved by Private Security Companies.The overall aim with this thesis is to describe and clear the debate of Private Security Companies in US. My question is if the attitude towards PSC as a partner inside the military structure has changed and what is the debate covering regarding the ongoing and increasing privatization of military structure.In order to do this thesis scientifically have I chosen to use a qualitative text analysis. As theory have I chosen Lennart J. Lundqvist broad ideas about privatization that can be found in his book - Politik som organisation. Lundqvist broad ideas will be linked with Bo Rothsteins model for competition, responsibility and efficiency between market and state.My main conclusion is that the debate inside US is not the covering the change of attitude towards the private companies inside the military structure. The privatization of the military structure is considered to be a part of politics. The attitude towards the private security companies, seen out of a historic perspective from the end of the Cold War, must be seen as changed.
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Järkeborn, Stefan. "Officersprofessionen och den Nya Befälsordningen : argumenten kring ett befälssystem under ett kvarts sekel." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1506.

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Syftet m denna uppsats är att kategorisera argumenten för och emot enbefälssystemet och diskuteraargumentens relevans utifrån en tids- och professionsaspekt. 1983 infördes det Nya Befälssystemet(NBO) vilket innebar att Sverige övergav den sorts flerbefälssystem som i princip ärallenarådande i resten av världen. Detta befälssystem har i allt större omfattning kommit att diskuteras.Detta arbete vill visa på den bredd av argument som förekommer (både för och emot),kategorisera argumenten utifrån en professionsteoretisk utgångspunkt samt visa om det finns enskillnad i argumenten beroende på om de är från tiden för NBO införande eller från nutid. Dennadel har genomförts som en kvalitativ textanalys av främst officiella dokument och vetenskapligaarbeten från Försvarshögskolan. För att tillföra ytterligare en dimension på argumentenprövas ett mindre urval emot uppfattningen ur ett Flygvapenperspektiv. Här används intervjuerför insamling av empiri. Som teoretisk bas har James Burks indelning av en profession i treelement expertis, jurisdiktion och legitimitet använts. Som komplement har Bengt Abrahamssonsbeskrivning av kåranda och Steven Brints indelning i praktiker, experter och eliter använts.Bredden av argument är stor, men bilden har förändrats sedan 1983. Dagens argument ärmer motstridiga än de i huvudsak positiva under det tidiga 1980-talet. Argumenten uppfattasinte i alla stycken som giltiga i Flygvapnet.
The purpose of this thesis is to categorise the arguments for and against the Swedish consolidatedofficer system and to discuss the relevance of these arguments from a professional viewpoint andin terms of time.In 1983 the Consolidated Officer System was introduced, which meant that Sweden abandonedthe kind of officer, non-commissioned officer system that prevails in practically every othercountry. This system has become a subject for ever-increasing debate. This thesis intends toshow the breadth of arguments that exist (both pro and con), to categorise these arguments withthe help of professional theory, and to show whether or not there is a difference in the arguments,depending on whether they date from the introduction of the new system or from today.This part of the work was conducted as a qualitative analysis of texts, mostly from officialdocuments and works from the Swedish National Defence College. To add a further dimensionto the arguments, a small selection has been tested in an air force context. Here interviews wereused to collect the empirical facts. James Burk’s description of a profession as consisting ofthree elements - expertise, jurisdiction and legitimacy - has been used as a theoretical base.Bengt Abrahamsson’s description of esprit de corps and Steven Brint’s division of a professioninto practitioners, experts and elites have been used to complement this base. The range of argumentsis wide, but the picture has changed since 1983. The arguments of today are more contradictorythen the generally positive ones of the early 1980’s. Not all of the arguments are consideredto be valid from an air force perspective.
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Samuelsson, Per. "Studerandeinflytande i officersutbildningssystemet." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1539.

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Utredningen har sitt ursprung i ett uppdrag givet av Försvarsmakten till FHS att utreda formernaför studerandeinflytande i officersutbildningssystemet med anledning av att FHS även fått programansvarför yrkesofficersutbildningen.Syftet har varit att lämna ett förslag på ett för hela officersutbildningen sammanhållet system förstuderandeinflytande och en plan för dess implementering.Utredningen har huvudsakligen genomförts som en kvalitativ analys av författningar, styrdokumentoch aktuella arbetshandlingar. En värdering av FHS rådande system för studerandeinflytandehar också genomförts. Vidare innehåller en utredningen en fallstudie av hur studerandeinflytandetär organiserat vid ett civilt lärosäte med distribuerad utbildning.Utredningens förslag omfattar ett system för studerandeinflytande som har såväl en lokal somcentral dimension. De studerande i officersutbildningssystemet bör organiseras i en riksomfattandegemensam studentkår som inledningsvis utgår från Studentkåren FHS. Förslaget innebäräven att studerandeinflytandet framgent främst skall utövas i de organ i linjeorganisationen sombereder och beslutar i frågor som berör utbildningen och de studerandes situation.De förtroendevalda vid FM skolor och FHS skall ges möjlighet att under hösten 2006 konstituerasig. Fokus för studerandeinflytandet bör vara kvalitetsarbetet i den lokala dimensionen.
This report originates from a commission from the Swedish Armed Forces to the Swedish NationalDefence College (SNDC) to study the framework for student influence within the future officereducational systemThe purpose has been to propose a common system for student influence throughout the officereducational system and to present a plan for its implementation.The study has been realized through a qualitative analysis of laws and regulations, policy documentsand working documents. An assessment of the current system for student influence withinSNDC is also included. Furthermore the study contains a benchmark of the student influence systemof a civilian university, which perform distributed education.The reports proposal comprise a system for student influence that has a local as well as a centraliseddimension. The students should be organised in a nation-wide joint students association byway of introduction emanate from the current student association at SNDC. The proposal alsosuggests that the future student influence should generally be exercised through the preparatoryand decision-making bodies that are responsible for issues pertaining to the education and generalsituation of the students.The students elected representatives will during the autumn of 2006 be given the opportunity toconstitute itself.
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Nilsson, Evelina. "Utrustning för kvinnor : En studie kring Försvarsmaktens anpassning av uniformer och stridsutrustning." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-820.

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I 30 år har kvinnor funnits på militära befattningar i Försvarsmakten. Fram till för fyra år sedan hade nästan inga åtgärder vidtagits för att anpassa den personliga utrustningen till kvinnors behov. Enligt en undersökning från 2005 bidrar detta inte enbart till direkta fysiska begränsningar, utan även till sänkt självförtroende och känslor av kränkning och underordning. Sedan 2006 har Försvarsmakten och FMV arbetat med att ta fram en rad olika persedlar i mindre storlekar, och daglig dräkt har även tagits fram i dammodell. De små storlekarna har visat sig lösa delar av de problem som kvinnor har upplevt. I Försvarsmaktens jämställdhetsplan står det dock bland annat att genus- och jämställdhetsperspektiv ska anläggas vid nyanskaffning av materiel. Det har visat sig finnas ett personligt intresse hos de ansvariga på Högkvarteret och FMV, men det organisatoriska engagemanget i frågan kring utrustning för kvinnor verkar nästan obefintligt. Jag ser dessutom brister i kommunikationen mellan användarna och de som är ansvariga för framtagningen av ny utrustning. Den enda kanalen mellan förbanden och Högkvarteret är s.k. brukarrepresentanter, som ensamma svarar för att föra hundratals människors åsikter uppåt. Enligt teorier kring gruppsammansättningar och minoriteter finns det också anledning att tro att kvinnor, som den minoritet de utgör, riskerar att kvävas av rösterna från majoriteten när denna metod används. Som en lösning på problemet förordar jag ett ökat organisatoriskt engagemang i frågan, genom tydligare stöttning från den högsta ledningen, samt en enkätundersökning, som på bred front samlar in användarnas åsikter om den materiel som tillhandahålls.


Until four years ago no measures had been taken to adapt the personal equipment to women’s needs.This doesn’t only cause direct physical limitations, but also brings out feelings of lowered self-esteem, insult and subordination. Since 2006 the Swedish Armed Forces and FMV (Swedish Defence Materiel Administration) have worked with developing smaller sizes in a number of items of equipment, which also have turned out to solve some of the problems that women have been experiencing. The Swedish Armed Forces’ gender equality plan says that gender and equality perspectives are to be adopted when developing new equipment. Although there has turned out to be a personal interest among the people responsible, the organizational commitment to the issue seems almost non-existant. A lack of communication between the users and the people responsible for the adaptation of equipment for women has also been noted. The only channel between the units and the Headquarters is so called “user representatives”, who are single-handedly responsible for the forwarding of opinions of hundreds of people. There are reasons to believe that women, as a minority, risk being smothered by the voices of the majority when this method is used. As a solution to this problem it is recommended that the organizational commitment is increased, through a more overt support from the higher command, and that a survey is conducted collecting the opinions of a wide group of people about the personal equipment that is supplied by the Armed Forces.

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Boshoff, Alida. "Die impak van die grensoorlog (SWA/Angola) op die lewens van soldate, aan die hand van vertellings uit die oorlog." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51704.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is asswned that events during the border war (SWAI Angola) had an influencelimpact on the lives of soldiers who took part in it. Some experiences have become embedded in their memories and are reflected in yams about such episodes and anecdotes that constitute a wealth of oral art. From a cultural history point of view, these therefore deserve to be recorded and conserved. The study interprets the narratives against the background of the border war and determines the relationship between these stories and the influence of the war on the lives of soldiers. Examples of war hwnour are grouped into stories about personal hygiene, misunderstandings, boyish pranks, practical jokes and other humorous incidents. As in any war, soldiers were confronted with unpleasant experiences such as bad news from home, the death of comrades and the enemy, adventures with wild animals and the loss of pets. Tales about soldiers' experiences during contact with the enemy allow one to gain insight into the functioning of the human mind. These stories are grouped into heroic deeds, narrow escapes and feelings experienced in contact with the enemy. As far as is known, no legends had their origin in the border war, but stories about quite a few legendary characters are told. Stories about helicopter pilots and trackers might eventually develop into legends, because of the fearlessness and skill of these people. Myths are stories originating in folkbelief, in which God or the gods play an important role. However, stories from the border war about chaplains and religion are not myths, but tales about personal experience with a religious inclination. It is clear from the narratives that religion played an important role in the lives of soldiers and that they had a child-like trust in a Supreme Being. Leaders, trackers and helicopter pilots were identified as important people in soldiers' battle for survival. They also had a need of female company and the presence of women. Pets played a significant role in allowing them to express their emotions. Each soldier experienced confrontation with death and the enemy in his own unique manner. In spite of hardships, many tales of a humorous nature were told. This can be regarded as a way of dealing and coping with unpleasant experiences.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die veronderstelling is dat gebeure gedurende die grensoorlog (SW AI Angola) In invloed/impak op die soldate wat daaraan deelgeneem het, se lewens gehad het. Sekere ervarings is in hulle geheue vasgele en kom in die vorm van belewenisvertellings en staaltjies na Yore, wat In ryke skat van volkswoordkuns bied. Dit verdien daarom om vanuit In kultuurhistoriese oogpunt opgeteken en bewaar te word. Die studie vertolk die vertellings teen die agtergrond van die grensoorlog en bepaal die verband tussen die vertellings en die invloed van die oorlog op die lewens van soldate. Voorbeelde van oorlogshumor word gegroepeer in verhale wat handel oor persoonlike higiene, misverstande, kwajongstreke, poetse en ander humoristiese insidente. Soos in enige oorlog, is soldate gekonfronteer met onaangename wedervarings soos slegte nuus van die huis af, die dood van makkers en die vyand, wedervarings met wilde diere en die verlies van troeteldiere. Vertellings oor soldate se ervarings tydens kontak met die vyand verleen insig in die werking van die menslike gees en is gegroepeer in heldedade, noue ontkomings en gevoelens wat ervaar is in kontak met die vyand. Sover bekend bestaan daar nie legendes uit die grensoorlog nie, maar daar is van In hele paar legendariese karakters vertel. Vanwee hulle onverskrokkenheid en vemuf kan verhale oor helikoptervlieeniers en spoorsnyers met verloop van tyd legendes word. Mites is verhale wat uit die volksgeloof spruit en waarin God of gode Inbelangrike rol speel. Verhale uit die grensoorlog wat handel oor kapelane en godsdiens, is egter nie mites nie maar belewenisvertellings met In godsdienstige strekking. Uit die vertellings blyk dit dat godsdiens In belangrike rol in die lewens van soldate gespeel het en dat daar In kinderlike vertroue in In Hoer Hand was. Leiersfigure, spoorsnyers en helikoptervlieeniers is geidentifiseer as belangrike persone in soldate se oorlewingstryd. Daar was ook In behoefte aan vroulike geselskap en teenwoordigheid. Troeteldiere het In belangrike rol gespeel om uiting te gee aan emosies. Soldate het konfrontasie met die dood en die vyand elkeen op sy eie unieke manier beleef. Ten spyte van ontberings, is daar heelwat verhale met In humoristiese strekking vertel en dit kan beskou word as In manier om onaangename ervarings te hanteer en te verwerk.
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Hansen, Mads Uhlin. "Perpetuating hegemony: a critical reflection on social forces shaping Mozambique’s development strategy." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4341.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The essence of this study is about structural change and how it is affected by competing social forces. My primary aim is to examine the problems and contradictions in Mozambique‟s development strategy and to gain an understanding of how these problems are influenced by the structure of the contemporary world order. A central focus will be on how social forces at various levels influence the way in which development strategy is formed through superior material capabilities, shaping ideas and establishing institutions. The main argument is that the hegemonic neoliberalist ideology has been perpetuated in Mozambique by external social forces and has become the mainstay of the development approach in the country. By acknowledging that theory is used by different social groups for various purposes, I depart from the common assumption of considering the Mozambican development example as a success, and rather ask „for whom it has been a success‟. The theoretical approach in this study is based on Coxian Critical Theory (CCT) and a significant proportion is dedicated to evaluate Cox‟s works and how he applies his theoretical framework in the analysis of the changing world order. To get a better appreciation for the strengths and weaknesses of CCT, the study will also examine the works of several scholars that use CCT in their studies of social forces in Southern Africa. The case study will be guided by the findings generated by the theoretical evaluation, particularly with regards to the way CCT allows for various points on entry in the analysis. The case study of Mozambique generated three main conclusions. Firstly, that Frelimo has failed to create a broad based consensus for its ideology among different social forces in Mozambique and that the historic bloc in Mozambique remains fragile. Secondly, that the economic elite in South Africa and the ANC collaborated with Frelimo in structuring the development strategy in Mozambique, and through this collaboration, perpetuated values consistent with the hegemonic neoliberal consensus. Finally, that the prevailing order in Mozambique is strengthened by the involvement of the international community and that structural change is unlikely to take place without the development of a stronger civil society. The theoretical contribution of the study has been to further support that the logic provided by CCT remains valid in the African context, and that it is highly compatible with other social theories. Furthermore, the study concludes that CCT is particularly compatible with post-colonial theory and social psychology and can be used to address the shortcomings of each other.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die sentrale punt van die studie is strukturele verandering en hoe dit beïnvloed word deur mededingende sosiale kragte. Die primêre doel van die tesis is om die probleme en teenstrydighede in Mosambiek se ontwikkelingstrategie te ondersoek en om te verstaan hoe hierdie probleme verband hou met die struktuur van die teenswoordige wêreld-orde. ‟n Belangrike fokus is ook hoe sosiale kragte op verskeie vlakke die wyse waarop ontwikkelingstrategie gevorm word beïnvloed, via besondere materiële vermoeëns, die vorm van idees en die skep van instellings. Die hoof argument is dat „n hegemoniese neoliberale ideologie perpetueer is in Mosambiek deur eksterne sosiale kragte en dat dit sodoende die bakermat van dié land se benadering tot ontwikkeling geword het. Deur te erken dat teorie deur verskillende sosiale groepe vir uiteenlopende redes gebruik word, beweeg ek weg van die algemene aanname, naamlik dat ontwikkeling in Mosambiek as suksesvol beskou kan word. Die vraag moet eerder gestel word, “vir wie is ontwikkeling in Mosambiek „n sukses?” Die teoretiese benadering in hierdie studie is gegrond op Coxiaanse Kritiese Teorie (CKT) en „n betekenisvolle proporosie van die studie word gewy aan „n evaluering van Cox se benadering en hoe hy dit toepas in „n analise van die veranderende wêreld-orde. Ten einde „n beter waardering daar te stel vir die voor- en nadele van CKT, ondersoek die studie ook die bydraes van „n aantal ander geleerdes wat die benadering gebruik in hul bestudering van sosiale kragte in Suider-Afrika. Die gevalle-studie word gerig deur die bevindinge wat gegenereer word deur hierdie teoretiese evaluering, in die besonder met betrekking tot die manier waarop CKT die gebruik van verskillende invalshoeke tot die analise fasiliteer. Die Mosambiekse gevalle-studie lewer drie hoof-gevolgtrekkings op. Eerstens, dat FRELIMO nie daarin geslaag het, om „n breë konsensus vir sy ideologiese uitgangspunte onder die verskillende sosiale kragte in die land te skep nie. Derhalwe, is die „historiese blok‟ in Mosambiek kwesbaar. Tweedens, dat die ekonomiesse elite in Suid-Afrika en binne die African National Congress (ANC) vi saamgewerk het met FRELIMO om die ontwikkelingstrategie in Mosambiek te struktureer. In daardie opsig, is waardes perpetueer wat saamhang met die hegemoniese neoliberale konsensus. Laatstens, dat die heersende orde in Mosambiek versterk word deur die betrokkenheid van die internasionale gemeenskap en dat strukturele verandering in dié land onwaarskynlik is sonder die ontwikkeling van „n sterker burgerlike samelewing. Die teoretiese bydrae van die studie ondersteun verder die premis dat CKT geldig bly binne die konteks van Afrika en dat dit versoenbaar is met ander sosiale teorieë. Verder, word die gevolgtrekking gemaak dat CKT ook besonder versoenbaar is met post-koloniale teorie en sosiale sielkunde en dat dit gebruik kan word om die tekortkominge in elkeen aan te spreek.
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Marsch, Christer. "Yrkesväxling : officerens förutsättningar att yrkesväxla till den civila arbetsmarknaden." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1599.

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Försvarsmakten har idag en oönskad äldre ålderstruktur som inte är avpassad förorganisationens uppgifter och struktur i framtiden. Samtidigt är man är tvungen att säga uppyngre officerare för att kortsiktigt kunna klara de ekonomiska målen. Detta ärkontraproduktivt vilket gör att Försvarsmakten i framtiden vill skapa ett nyttpersonalförsörjningssystem. För att kunna genomföra detta måste ett antal av dagensofficerare yrkesväxla för att göra plats för det nya systemet. Uppsatsens syfte är att få insikteri vilka förutsättningar det finns för dagens officerare att yrkesväxla till ett civilt arbete.Uppsatsen svarar på vad som är officerskompetens och hur officerskompetensen kanbeskrivas med andra ord. Dessutom svarar uppsatsen på vilka yrkesområden eller typer avbefattningar som officeren har möjlighet respektive sämre möjlighet att yrkesväxla tillrelaterat till den kompetens som officeren har. Huvudsaklig metod är att jämföra officerenskompetens med annonsers kvalifikationskrav med utgångspunkt i Per-Erik Ellströms teoriom yrkeskunnande. Uppsatsens svar är att officeren har störst möjlighet att yrkesväxla tillchefsbefattningar inom olika branscher samt till befattningar inom yrkesområdet ekonomi,administration och personal.
The transformation of the Swedish Defence Forces in the last decade hasresulted in the organisation having more officers than necessary. As a resultSupreme Commander has given notice of dismissal to approximately 1000officers. The Supreme Commander aims to lower the average age of the officercorps but because of Swedish law he must discharge the younger officers. Theonly thing that can change this situation is implementing a new system that canrecruit, train and phase out officers with the purpose of having a youngerofficer corps, which can perform operations in the future better.The purpose of this essay is to find out what possibilities the officers workingin the Armed Forces today have of changing career. The main question iswhich professions or jobs have employment opportunities for officers andwhich don’t. Other questions are: what is the military profession and how canyou explain the military profession in other words.The method is to study governmental reports that describe the militaryprofession and officer competence. That has been analysed againstadvertisements for available jobs. Advertisements and officer competence havebeen transformed into a model by Per Erik Ellström that describes competenceand qualification.The answer is that the officer can be employed in a position of leadership indifferent lines of business and can get employment in lines of business havingto do with economics, administration and personnel.The essay has also noticed that a change is under way in the labour market. Thetraditional industrial occupations have fewer job opportunities than the serviceprofessions. This means that the officer has fewer opportunities for a secondcareer in the industrial sector and more opportunities in the service professions.In conclusion the essay claims by discuss that the Armed Forces must organiseand develop competence in helping officers create a new career outside theArmed Forces with the purpose of being able to implement their new system ofrecruiting, training and phasing out of personnel more quickly. This is the onlypossible way of transforming the Armed Forces and having a younger officercorps.
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Ludvig, Mats. "En spricka i den militära professionen." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1693.

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Under det senaste decenniet har den säkerhetspolitiska situationen i Europa ändrats.Försvarsmakten har därmed tvingats att anpassa sig efter situationen för att svara mot dekrav som den nya säkerhetspolitiska bilden ställer. En del av denna anpassning är en ökadfokusering på internationell verksamhet vilket innebär att den militära professionen måsteändra sig på ett antal punkter. Ett faktum är att inte alla officerare har genomfört eninternationell insats och därmed påverkats av den miljö och verksamhet som där ingår.Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om officerarna med eller utan internationelltjänstgöring har olika inställning till ett antal aspekter runt försvarsmakten, dess roll ochverksamhet, som till del kan kopplas till professionsbegreppet. Uppsatsens empiri byggerpå två grupper officerare varav endast individerna i den ena har genomfört internationelltjänst. Insamlingsmetoden har varit i enkätform. Uppsatsen är skriven utifrån en hypotessom säger att det finns skillnader mellan de två grupperna och särskilt i frågan vilkenkonfliktnivå som skall utgöra grunden för grundutbildningen av soldater och förband. Somstöd för att utvärdera resultatet används forskning inom professionsteorin och i synnerhetden gren som avhandlar det militära. Resultatet visar att det finns klara skillnader mellan detvå gruppernas inställning, till vissa frågor rörande försvarsmaktens roll.
During the last decade the security environment in Europe has changed. TheSwedish armed forces have had to adapt to the new situation. Due to that thearmed forces changes focus from the national to the international arena. Thatmeans that the military profession also is transforming in some aspects. Themain purpose of this essay is to examine if the officers who has internationalexperience, differs from those who hasn’t, in their attitudes to the role of thearmed forces. The essay has a hypothesis. H0 Officers with internationalexperience consider the low intensity conflict to be the basis for the training ofsoldiers and units. H1 Officers without international experience consider thehigh intensity conflict to be the basis for the training of soldier and units. Theessay tries to understand the changes in the armed forces from the angle of thetheories of profession. The method is based on a questionnaire that two similargroups had to answer. One consisted of officers with international experienceand the other one of officers that hadn’t. The results from the survey show thatthe hypothesis H0 has a relevance of 100 percent for the officers who haveparticipated in international missions from 18 months and more. The relevanceof H1 is 87 percent. The first group of officers also tends to se the role of thearmed forces as a security politics instrument. The other group sees the armedforces role as combination of an instrument of the countries defence and as asecurity politics instrument. The essay states that it’s a reasonable developmentin the view of the theories of profession. It also states de necessity that theofficial rhetoric is in line with the doctrines and the daily practice. Otherwisethere is a great risk that the so essential trust for the senior leadership and theorganisation will decrease.
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Schiller, Sara. "En studie av CBRN-funktionen i BG08 och BG11." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-778.

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Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att undersöka vilka skillnader som finns i analysen av CBRN-skyddsförmågan i BG08 och BG11. För att kunna genomföra undersökningen har det varit nödvändigt att beskriva hur EU Battle Group konceptet har tillkommit samt vad konceptet innebär. Följande frågeställningar har legat till grund för studien: Vilka förändringar har gjorts i analysen av CBRN-funktionen i BG08 och BG11? Om det finns några förändringar, hur förklarar man och förstår dessa förändringar? Utifrån de rådande politiska ingångsvärdena för de två styrkorna har viss diskrepans, dock liten, identifierats. Den största skillnaden ligger i vilken nation som skall bidra med förmågan. Den här skillnaden påverkar dock inte nämnvärt de framtagna CBRN-skyddskoncepten. Däremot har det under undersökningens gång framkommit att det hos en del befattningshavare inom Försvarsmakten funnits en önskan om att vidareutveckla CBRN-skyddskonceptet på ett antal punkter till BG11. Då arbetet med BG08 tog form fanns det stöd i HKV att tillgå på strategisk/operativ nivå, vilket saknades under arbetet med BG11. Utifrån den genomförda undersökningen i denna studie framstår detta stöd som relevant för att kunna utveckla det här konceptet på ett adekvat sätt. Författaren har under arbetes gång konstaterat att det torde bli en förändring i den reella förmågan som levererades av Finland till BG08 mot den reella förmåga Norge kommer att besitta i BG11. Det här har inte diskuterats under framtagandet av de två koncepten utan argumentationen har endast baserats på de politiska ingångsvärdena samt hotbilden för EU Battle Group.


The purpose of this paper has been to examine the differences in the analysis of CBRN protection capability of the BG08 and BG11. A secondary purpose to carry out this analysis was to describe the EU Battle Group concept, its development and meaning. The following issues formed the basis for the paper: What changes have been made in the analysis of CBRN branch in BG08 and BG11? If there are any changes, how do we explain and understand these changes? Given the current political input values for the two forces only minor discrepancies could be identified. The main difference is due to the nation responsible for CBRN capacity. This difference, however, does not seriously affect the developed CBRN protection-concepts. However, during the investigation it has emerged that some executives within the Armed Forces desire to develop some points of the CBRN protection-concept in reference to the BG11. When BG08 formed itself there was available support in HKV in strategic/operational level, which was missing in the workflow to BG11. Based on the findings of this paper this support seems relevant to develop the concept adequately. In the course of working on the paper the author has discovered a most likely change in the real capability delivered by Finland to the BG08, and the real ability that Norway will possess in BG11. The development process of the two concepts has not included an analysis of the ultimate ability. Instead is has been based on the input values and political threat for the EU Battle Group.

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Van, Heerden Anneke. "Die Suiderkruisfonds en die mobilisering van die Suid-Afrikaanse blanke burgerlike samelewing tydens die Grensoorlog, 1968-1989." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86207.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Southern Cross Fund was established under the leadership of Elizabeth Albrecht in 1968. The organisation was created by white members of the civil society to provide support to the South African armed forces. In cooperation with the South African Defence Force, the Southern Cross Fund served the basic needs of the soldiers. Through its support of the troops the organisation also strived to serve as morale builder. This dissertation discusses the formation of the Southern Cross Fund in relation to South Africa’s political and military position during the Cold War with specific reference to the so-called Border War (1966-1989). The relationship between the Southern Cross Fund and the South African Defence Force as well as the orientation of the organisation as a civiland women’s organisation is analysed. The services endered by the organisation are discussed as well as an analysis of the significance of the Southern Cross Fund in both the military and civil spheres. The organisation is evaluated within the theoretical framework of the mobilisation of civil society in times of war within the timeframe of the existence of the Southern Cross Fund.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In 1968 het die Suiderkruisfonds, onder leiding van Elizabeth Albrecht, tot stand gekom. Hierdie organisasie is deur lede van die blanke burgerlike samelewing gestig en het voorsorg vir die welsyn van die Suid-Afrikaanse gewapende magte getref. In samewerking met die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag het die Suiderkruisfonds aan die basiese behoeftes van die soldate voorsien en, deur middel van sy ondersteuning aan die troepe, gepoog om as moraalbouer te dien. Hierdie tesis bespreek die stigting van die Suiderkruisfonds teen die agtergrond van Suid-Afrika se politieke en militêre posisie tydens die Koue Oorlog met spesifieke verwysing na die sogenaamde Grensoorlog (1966-1989). Die Suiderkruisfonds se verhouding met die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag, asook sy oriëntasie as beide burgerlike- en vroue-organisasie word ondersoek. Die dienste wat die organisasie gelewer het word volledig bespreek en die betekenis van die Suiderkruisfonds in beide die militêre en burgerlike sfere word ondersoek. Die organisasie word ook geevalueer binne die teoretiese raamwerk van die mobilisering van die burgerlike samelewing ten tye van konflik wat tydens die tydperk van die Suiderkruisfonds se bestaan voorgekom het.
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Kilvik, Janne. "Tids och nivårelaterade förändringar i officerares syn på framtida officersyrket." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1684.

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Officersyrket är föränderlig. Hur har de senaste årens förändringar i svenska försvarsmakten förändrat synen påofficersyrket? Hur påverkar ökad ålder i kombination med nivåhöjande utbildning synen på officersyrket? Vad ärkonstant och vilka är trenderna i denna syn? Går det även att i materialet finna förklaringar till den eventuellt förändradesynen? Genom svaren på dessa frågor ges även en indikation på hur stabila svaren från respektive delområde i tidigareforskning är i dag. Slutligen vill jag veta vilka tecken som i det empiriska materialet går att finna på att det svenskaförsvaret följer de övriga europeiska makternas militära utveckling? Efter problemformulering valdes informanter blandelever vid Försvarshögskolan och Militärhögskolorna för att delta i enkätundersökning. Svaren bearbetades ochsammanställdes i ett antal delområden. En av B. Sundström år 1999/2000 gjord enskild undersökning har tjänat somreferens för att kunna undersöka eventuella trender och konstanter i synen på den framtida Officersyrket. Vid analysernahar en komparativ metod används. Resultaten från analyserna sammanställdes för att ge svar på frågan om stabiliteten.Slutligen analyserades materialet för att ge svar på om Sverige följer de övriga europeiska ländernas militära utveckling.Vid analyserna användes dr Dänikers teorier om militärmakts nyttjande samt en trendteori av Haltiner/Klein.I studienhar påvisats ett antal frågeställningar vars svar är beroende på tidsfaktorer respektive skillnader i ålder/utbildning. Tillde tidsberoende svaren kan hänföras uppfattningar om hot från Ryssland, intresse för specialistutbildning, anslutning tillNATO, införande av yrkesarmé och tron på totalförsvarsplikten. De svar som kan kopplas till skillnad i ålder/utbildningkan hänföras till uppfattningar om flerbefälssystem, följd av införande av studielån vid nivåhöjande utbildning,rimlighet av nedskärningar av Försvarsmakten samt benägenhet att flytta vid ändrad tjänstgöringsplats. Dessutom märksatt de studerande vid chefsprogrammet över lag har mer bestämda uppfattningar i de enskilda frågorna. Vissa svar ärdock påverkade av både tidsfaktorer och skillnader i ålder/utbildning t.ex. vid uppfattning om tvång i samband medinternationell militär tjänstgöring. Det stora flertalet av svaren på de ställda frågorna har visat sig inte vara stabila, varesig över tiden eller med skillnad i ålder/utbildning. De delområden som är något mer stabila har visat sig vara ledarskapoch synen på internationell tjänstgöring. Slutligen går i materialet att finna flera tecken på att Sveriges försvar kankomma att följa de europeiska ländernas militära utveckling, såväl beträffande uppgifter som internationalisering ochbemanning, samt samhällets demilitarisering om de studerandes åsikter om framtiden besannas.
The military profession is changing. In what way has the changes duringthe latest years changed the view of the military profession? In what waydoes ageing in combination with education change the view of themilitary profession? What is constant and which are the trends in thisview? Is it, in this material, possible to find some explanations? Byanswering these questions I will get an indication concerning how stablethe answers from different parts are today. Finally I want to know whatsignals that is possible to find concerning if the Swedish Defence isgoing in the same direction as the rest of the European armed forces.After presentation of the problem the informants were chosen among thestudents at the Swedish National Defence Academy and Collage to takepart in an opinion poll. The answers were worked up and compiled indifferent branches. An essay written by B.Sundström in 1999/2000served as a reference to find possible trends and constants in the viewof the future military profession. During the analyses a comparativemethod were used. The results from the analyses were compiled to getanswers concerning if the Swedish Defence is going in the samedirection as the rest of the European Armed forces. During the analysesa theory about use of military power by Dr Däniker was used as well as atrend theory by Haltiner/Klain.A number of answers have been found to be connected to the timefactor as well as difference in age/education. Among the answersconnected to the time factor there is the threat from Russia, interest tobe a specialist, introduction of a full time profession defence, and theview of the conscript system. Answers connected to the difference inage/education were found among the view of numbers of levels in theofficer system, consequences if students are to pay for the education,cut downs in the defence budget and the will to move if getting a newjob. Furthermore it was observed that the students at the defenceacademy knew for certain what to answer in different questions. Someof the questions in fact are connected to booth the time factor as well asdifference in age/education, like in the answer concerning the duress totake part in international operations.Most of the answers appeared to be not stable whether the time fact orthe fact that the students are different ages and have different educationlevels. Those parts in the study that are more stable are concerningleadership and the view of taking part in international operations.Finally there are a lot of signals showing that the Swedish defence isgoing in the same direction as the rest of the European Armed Forcesconcerning tasks, internationalisation, manning as well asdemilitarisation of the society, if the students opinions of the futurecomes true.
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Söder, Rickard. "Climate Change & (In)Security : Practical Implications of Securitization." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385728.

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This study explores different perceptions of security and investigates if recognition of climate change as a security issue has implications for countries’ armed forces. I use a securitization framework to understand how discursive positions are created, and by making the framework more dynamic I investigate how similar security matters are represented in different ways. I argue that securitization of climate change in national contexts changes the armed forces’ strategies to bring about security and that their activities are affected by the underlying logics of the discursive arguments. To investigate the proposed relation, I conduct a comparative case study of Norway and Sweden, and find that different ideas about the security dimension of climate change have different implications for the armed forces’ practices and organization.
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Sutera, Sofia. "Women and Leadership in Peacekeeping Operations: a Swedish Approach." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21048.

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Even after the introduction of the UNSCR 1325 and subsequent resolutions, women’s leadership in the context of the WPS Agenda remains very low, despite the clear stance of the UN towards a support of an increased participation of women in peace and security processes. The aim of this thesis is to specifically address women’s leadership in the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) in the framework of peacekeeping operations, looking at the way the gender perspective is applied in the SAF through the introduction of the Handbok Gender, adopted in 2016. Since the focus of this research is on women, the theoretical perspective utilised as reference point is feminism and specifically a feminist constructivist approach with an institutional focus. Mixed research methods have been applied in order to collect the data, while the main centre of attention of this project has been a critical discourse analysis of the mentioned gender policy. Sweden has been chosen as case study because of the relevance of its singular feminist policies (Wallström’s statement that Sweden is pursuing a feminist foreign policy is a clear example), nevertheless the conclusions appear to be quite contradictory because even in a country which officially identifies as feminist women’s leadership in peacekeeping operations is very low.
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Jorlöv, Karin, and Emma Venngren. "Employer attractiveness of the Swedish Armed Forces : A quantitative study of gender differences and the effects of employer brand attributes and social media in the government authority sector." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-90596.

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The main purpose of this degree project has been to examine the effects of employer brand attributes and activities on social media to the employer attractiveness of the Swedish Armed Forces. We aimed to make theoretical contributions to the fields of employer branding and social media marketing, and test a unique conceptual model for the government authority. The conceptual model focuses on employer brand attributes that have previously been connected to employer attractiveness in this type of context, as well as social media constructs which were not applied to this research area before. We found several research gaps in the previous theories within the two main areas of research. Within the area of employer branding, there was limited research made on government authorities. There were only few studies which considered the effects of social media on employer attractiveness and assessed gender differences across relevant concepts applied in this research field. This lead to the research question:   “What kind of employer brand attributes will increase employer attractiveness of SwAF when using social media for communicating with potential applicants of different genders?”   This degree project was written on commission for the Swedish Armed Forces that conduct recruitment activities primarily for the basic military training (GMU). In this study, we used a quantitative data collection method and distributed a survey to high school students in the ages of 17 to 20 at three different schools in the city of Umeå. The data including 202 responses was analyzed by various tests including Cronbach’s alpha, regression analyses and independent samples t-tests with SPSS, a statistical analysis program. The findings of our study have partly supported the hypothesized effects including the impact of instrumental and symbolic attributes on employer attractiveness. The first part of the conceptual model was therefore partly supported as the instrumental attribute Educational opportunities and the symbolic, Cheerfulness, was proven to have significant effects. One social media construct, Word of mouth, also had a significant effect on employer attractiveness for our full sample. A part of our sample had seen the Swedish Armed Forces on one or more of social network sites, which founded the base for a sub sample where further social media constructs were analyzed. Here, Attitude towards site, Disposition to trust and Site reputation were found to have positive effects on employer attractiveness. Lastly, we compared the means across all constructs and 30 social media activities for gender differences. We found that Social/team activities, Pay and benefits, Sincerity and Employer attractiveness had a significance difference between genders. Of the 30 activities, 12 showed gender differences. In addition to making a theoretical contribution, we provided valuable practical recommendations for both government authorities and the Swedish Armed Forces. Our suggestions regarded what to communicate on their social network sites and how to raise their employer attractiveness for the different genders with their marketing efforts. The attributes associated with a strong employer attractiveness were suggested to be emphasized in external communication, however the messages must stay truthful to what the organization does. Also, the understanding of how the target segment acts on social network sites should be used in marketing strategies, to enhance word of mouth communication and to strengthen marketing efforts focusing on social media.
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Wiklund, Peter. "Den svenska officeren - en krigare eller tjänsteman i uniform?" Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1741.

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Uppsatsens syfte är att studera svenska officerares inställning till den militära professionen mot bakgrund av derasuppfattningar om den pågående förändringen av Försvarsmakten. Målsättningen är att undersöka om deras inställning tillprofessionen, i relation till den nuvarande situationen i det svenska försvaret, ligger i linje med vad de anser skall utgöraFörsvarsmaktens kärnverksamhet, roll och uppgift.Inledningsvis introduceras Bengt Abrahamssons teorier rörande militär professionalisering och Samuel P. Huntingtons samtMorris Janowitz synsätt på den militära professionen såsom radikalt respektive pragmatiskt varande. Huvuddelen av detempiriska materialet utgörs av intervjuer av officerare med anknytning till förbandsutbildning vid samtliga vapenslag. Denvetenskapliga metoden har tagit sin utgångspunkt i den hermeneutiska traditionen. Uppsatsen syfte är inte att beskriva heladen svenska officerskårens uppfattning i frågan utan är mer en explorativ ansats i syfte att få idéer och kunskap om vilken synsom råder bland officerare avseende; synen på professionens syfte och huvuduppgift, vad det innebär att vara officer och vadde anser vara viktiga frågor för försvarets framtida professionalitet och legitimitet.De enskilda resultatslutsatser som dras är att de intervjuade officerarnas inställning till professionen inte är i harmoni med hurde uppfattar och tolkar den pågående förändringen av Försvarsmakten. I många avseenden återfinns indikationer som pekarmot ett missnöje och misstänksamhet mot det framtida insatsförsvaret och inriktningen mot ett nätverksbaserat försvar. Encentral del i officerens bristande tilltro till den pågående förändringen är starkt sammankopplad med avsaknaden av en klaroch tydlig målbild för försvaret, vilket i många avseenden genomsyrat hela undersökningen. Det framkommer också enbristande tillit till försvarsledningen sätt att utöva ledning vilket de intervjuade officerarna anser ha transformerat stora delarav organisationen till ett tjänstemannavälde. Den nuvarande teknikutvecklingen i försvaret möter motstånd i leden ochintervjuade officerare anser att det är nödvändigt att få till en omavvägning av materielanslag till förmån för återkommandekvalificerade och realistiska förbandsövningar. Undersökningen visar på att intervjuade officerare i dagsläget inte anser sigkunna upprätthålla förmåga att leda förband i väpnad strid och att försvaret under de senaste fem åren inte har kunnattillgodose tillräckliga förutsättningar för att motverka en sådan utveckling. I takt med den förändrade omvärldssituationen ochSveriges ökade politiska ambitioner på den internationella arenan framkommer det dock vissa tendenser till samsyn avseendeprofessionens framtida roll och uppgift. Den tidigare traditionellt starka anknytningen till nationens gränser börjar gradvis attförskjutas mot den internationella arenan. Ett nytt synsätt på den militära professionen framträder allt tydligare ur skuggan avdet forna invasionsförsvaret – modern radikalism. Kanske som ett resultat av möjligheterna att återigen lyfta framprofessionen i rampljuset i avsaknad av det kalla krigets argument för en välutbildad, välutrustad och välorganiseradFörsvarsmakt.
The purpose of this essay is to study Swedish officers’ attitude to the military professionbased on their understanding of the ongoing change within the Armed Forces inSweden. The aim is to examine if their attitude to the profession, in relation to thecurrent situation in the Armed Forces, complies with what they believe should be theArmed Forces core capabilities, role and mission.The essay begins with an introduction of Bengt Abrahamsson’s theories about militaryprofessionalism and Samuel P. Huntington’s and Morris Janowitz’s approaches to themilitary profession as being either radical or pragmatic. The main part of the empiricmaterial is interviews with officers with a connection to training of units within eachservice branch. The method used in this essay is a qualitative and investigationalanalysis of the interviews within the hermeneutic tradition of science. The purpose isnot to describe the complete attitude of the Swedish officers corps in this matter. Theessay explores ideas and knowledge about how Swedish officers refer to the followingsubjects; the purpose of the military professions and main tasks, what it means to be anofficer and what they feel are essential issues for the Armed Forces’ futureprofessionalism and legitimacy.The overall conclusions are that the Swedish officers attitude towards the professiondoesn’t harmonize with how they acknowledge and interpret the change of the ArmedForces in Sweden. In many ways it indicates a disapproval and suspicion of the futureflexible and network based defense. A central part of the officers’ lack of confidence inthe ongoing change is strongly connected to the absence of a clear aim and purpose ofthe Armed Forces, which in many ways has permeated the whole study. Further on,there is also distrust in the overall command of the Swedish Armed Forces, which theinterviewed officers think has transformed the officers corps to a clerk dominatedorganization. The present technological development is met with resistance within thecorps and interviewed officers feel that there is a need for an improved balance betweenresources for advanced military equipment and resources available for qualifiedexercises and training of units. Due to the current imbalance the interviewed officersfeel that their professionalism is decreasing and they don’t believe that they can solvethe core capabilities for the Armed forces namely armed combat. Within the changingworld around us and Sweden’s increased ambitions in the international arena, there arehowever some tendencies towards unanimity regarding the military professional roleand mission. The previously strong connection to a country’s borders is graduallystarting to shift towards the international arena. A new way of viewing the professioncomes into sight from the shadows of the former invasion defense – modern radicalism.Maybe this is a result of being able to draw the profession into the limelight without theCold Wars argument for a well trained, fully equipped and organized national defense.
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Kallin, Anders. "Den militära professionens förändring i dagens Sverige med särskilt fokus på Försvarsmaktens framtida internationalisering." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1767.

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Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att beskriva hur attityder avseende internationell tjänstgöring ochutbildningen av officerare har förändrats och anpassats till det framtida kravet på internationellaåtaganden. Utifrån syfte och problemformulering skulle uppsatsen ge svar på om officerens attitydoch vilja att tjänstgöra internationellt förändrats och om utbildningen av officerare på bästa sätthar anpassats till den utökade uppgiften att bidra till fred och säkerhet i omvärlden. Inledningsvishar den utveckling som skett sedan 1989 av Försvarsmaktens internationella uppgifter beskrivits.Därefter har en översiktlig bild av viljan och synen på internationell tjänst bland officerarebeskrivits. Detta har kompletterats med Officersförbundets syn på internationell tjänst.Avslutningsvis har en analys gjorts av det insamlade materialet där de huvudsakliga slutsatserna äratt Försvarsmakten tidigt måste analysera vilka kompetens- och utbildningsbehov som finns för attmatcha den utökade internationaliseringen som i framtiden kommer att krävas av Försvarsmakten.Detta för att implementera behoven i utbildningen av officerare så att kompetensgapet mellanpersonal och uppgifter inte skall öka.
The main purpose of this essay has been to describe if the education of officershas changed and whether it has been adapted due to the future demand oninternational commitment that the Swedish government has given to the ArmedForces. Another purpose has been to answer the question if the attitude and willto serve abroad among the officers has changed during the last couple of years.The main sources that have been used come from the Swedish government, theArmed forces headquarter, and official books. The method used in the essay isa qualitative, investigational and textual analysis. The overall conclusions arethat the Armed forces must early identify and analyse what competence andeducational requirements, both practical and theoretical that are needed in thefuture to match the escalating internationalisation that is required of theSwedish officers. These requirements are most important to implement inmilitary schools and to reduce the “gap” between the officer’s profession andthe overall international tasks.
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Wall, Jan. "Internationell tjänst i förband : officerens ställningstagande." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1891.

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Uppsatsen syftar till att diskutera motivationsfaktorer som utgör grund för officeren att delta eller attinte delta i internationell tjänst i förband. Behovsparametrar utvecklade från Maslow, Hertzberg ochMcClelland utgör grund för studien av det empiriska underlaget. Genom enkätundersökningundersöks 155 officerare, en grupp vid FHS Stabsprogram och en grupp bestående av kompanilagfrån tre armébrigader. Undersökningen svarar på vilken betydelse motivationsparametrar har förställningstagandet och vilka förändringar som efterfrågas för att motivera officerare att delta iinternationell tjänst i förband. Undersökningen bekräftar inte vissa resultat av tidigare forskn ing.Undersökningen visar att armén har en klart högre grad av villighet att delta i internationell tjänst ochatt bara en tredjedel av de år 2002 blivande majorerna och örlogskaptenerna avser delta i internationellaenheter. De sociala behoven anförs av huvuddelen som skäl att inte delta och viktigastemotiven för att delta är behoven av utveckling och meningsfullheten i arbetet. De i första handefterlysta förändringarna för att motivera officeren är ekonomisk ersättning, flexiblare och förändratrotationssystem och bättre stöd till anhöriga.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Swedish Armed Forces are undergoing amajor reorganisation and downscaling of materiel and personnel. At the sametime, international commitments are increasing as well as the need for officersin the Swedish international units. The earlier Swedish units, for example, inBosnia and the present units in Kosovo have already shown difficulties whenrecruiting officers. That problem might become even bigger in the near future.The purpose of this essay is to discuss and reflect upon the officers’ motivationfor taking part in units aimed for international duties.In the essay, answers are given to the following questions:- What importance do motivation factors have on the officers’ decision oftaking part, or not taking part in the units for international duties?- What changes do the officers want to obtain in order to motivatethemselves to take part in the units for international duties?The theoretical framework in common motivation theories and especially thehuman needs and motivation theories is by Maslow, McClelland andHertzberg. Based on their theories, a tool for analysis consisting of sixmotivation factors has been created. The method is qualitative with a deductiveapproach including a quantitative, descriptive presentation of the result.The investigation includes 155 officers, second lieutenants to majors. Theprocurement of empiri has taken place by using mail questionnaires and writtensources.The empirical research provides some results and the main conclusions are,that the most important motivation factor for those who choose not to joininternational units is social needs. It is one of the reasons for approximately 80% in that group. The main motivation factors for those who decide to apply forinternational duty are the desire for growth in individual development andlearning and the need for meaningfulness in work. The most important factorsto change, in order to increase the level of motivation are economical benefits,a more flexible and changed rotation system and better support to the next ofkin.The conclusion shows that only one third of this year’s graduated majors arewilling to join the international units and that it is possible to change most ofthe motivation factors in order to increase the willingness of the officers.
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Gustafsson, Morgan. "Den internationelle officeren - en myt eller sanning?" Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1495.

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Sverige befinner precis som många andra länder i en omstrukturering av sin försvarsmakt, där syftet är att reducerastorleken samt anpassa Försvarsmakten mot de nya uppgifter som den förändrade omvärlden kräver. En av deuppgifter som har fått ett större fokus är det ökade deltagandet i internationell verksamhet. Men hur ser relationen utmellan officerskåren och de villkor som FM ställer med anledning av den ökade internationaliseringen?Denna uppsats kommer genom dokumentstudier och enkät undersökning att ge svar på följande frågor.Min övergripande frågeställning är: Skiljer sig officerskårens syn på den egna professionen markant frånFörsvarsmaktens syn?Resultaten i arbetet visar att officerskårens syn i de flesta fall väl stämmer överens med den syn som Försvarsmaktenhar.Den första delfrågan som jag ställer i uppsatsen för att svara på den övergripande frågeställningen är:Finns det skillnader mellan de som har skrivit kontrakt som förbinder dem till utlandstjänstgöring, dvs. de undersöktaMHS eleverna, och officerarna från FHS ChP som ursprungligen utbildades mot invasionsförsvaret, och därmed intehar skrivit kontrakt som förbinder dem till utlandstjänstgöring?Svaret är att det föreligger flera olika signifikanta skillnader mellan de undersökta MHS eleverna och officerarna frånFHS ChP.Nästa delfråga som jag ställer lyder enligt följande:Påverkar det land som missionen genomförs i samt tiden för tjänstgöring viljan att tjänstgöra i internationell tjänst?Svaret på frågan är att det land som missionen genomförs i påverkar viljan till tjänstgöring, däremot är intetjänstgöringstidens längd något som påverkar viljan att tjänstgöra.Den sista del fråga som jag ställer lyder:Finns det skillnader i de undersökta populationerna som inte går att härleda till MHS respektive FHS tillhörighet?Inom de undersökta populationerna föreligger det flera olika signifikanta skillnader som inte går att härleda till MHSrespektive FHS populationen.
As the world situation is changing, the Swedish Armed Forces, like those of many other countries,are in a phase of structural reorganization, with the purpose of downsizing and also adapting theArmed Forces to new tasks. One of the tasks that has higher priority today is participation ininternational military operations. What is the attitude of officers to these new commitments?This essay, by analysing documents and interviewing officers, attempts to bring clarity to thecomprehensive issue:Is there a striking difference between the officers’ view of their own profession and the ArmedForces’ view?The results show that the view of the officers in most cases closely matches that of the ArmedForces.To more closely examine the comprehensive issue the following three questions are posed:Firstly:Are there differences between students at the Military Academy (in whose contracts serviceabroad is compulsory) and those in the Swedish National Defence College‘s Advanced CommandProgramme (who were educated for Cold War situations and in whose contracts service abroad isnot compulsory)?Several significant differences are found when comparing the responses of students at the MilitaryAcademy and those in the Swedish National Defence College‘s Advanced Command Programme.Secondly:Is the willingness to participate in an international mission influenced by the country of themission and the length of the mission?The country of the mission affects the willingness to participate in an international mission,whereas the length of the mission does not.Thirdly:Can the differences in the answers be attributed to the fact that the interviewees are students atthe Military Academy or at the Swedish National Defence College?Significant differences in opinion are encountered that cannot be attributed to the fact that theinterviewees are students at the Military Academy or at the Swedish National Defence College.
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Carlsson, Harald. "Massmedias syn på Operation Artemis : En fallstudie om Försvarsmaktens och massmedias rapportering från Operation Artemis." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1536.

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Den svenska veteranutredningen lyfter upp mediabilden från Sveriges deltagande i internationella insatser som ett problem. Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga skillnaderna i rapporteringen av händelserna under Operation Artemis i Kongo 2003 utifrån Försvarsmakten och de fyra största dagstidningarna (Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen och Svenska Dagbladet) samt att undersöka om rapporteringen skiljer sig beroende av om det är en morgontidning eller kvällstidning. Analysen har gjorts utifrån ett narrativt perspektiv och tidningarna har analyserats utifrån kategorierna dagstidningsekonomi, sensationsjournalistik, objektivitet, vinkling och förenkling. Uppsatsen visar på att det finns skillnader i hur både Försvarsmakten och dagstidningarna rapporterade från Operation Artemis. Uppsatsen visar också på att rapporteringen skiljer sig om det är en morgontidning eller kvällstidning som skriver artikeln. Det finns även likheter i rapporteringen då samtliga tidningar vinklar artiklarna till sitt egna och förenklar vissa delar för att läsaren lättare skall kunna begripa innehållet. Försvarsmakten visar på en objektivitet och vill tydligt förklara händelseförloppet. Försvarsmakten erbjuder fördjupning inom ämnet för läsaren och erbjuder läsaren ofta tydlighet med faktarutor intill sina skriva artiklar.
The Swedish veteran investigation brings attention to the problem of the media image of Sweden's participation in international missions. The purpose of this paper is to identify differences between the Swedish Armed Forces’ and the four major newspapers’ (Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Svenska Dagbladet) reports of the events of Operation Artemis in Congo in 2003, and to investigate whether the reporting is different depending on whether it is a morning newspaper or tabloid. The analysis is made based on a narrative perspective and the newspapers have been analyzed according to categories of newspaper economics, sensationalist journalism, objectivity, bias and simplification. The paper shows that there are differences in how the Armed Forces and the newspapers reported from Operation Artemis. The essay also shows that reporting is different between newspapers and tabloids. There are also similarities in the reports on which all the newspapers have a bias and simplify some parts to help the reader understand the content. The Armed Forces show an objectivity and to clearly explain the sequence of events. The Armed Forces offer depth knowledge of the topic to the reader and offers the reader clarity with the help of fact boxes next to the articles.
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Widiyanto, Okky. "The Culture of Leadership : The relationship between national culture and leadership models." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-4035.

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The objective of this thesis is to discuss the influence of national culture in leadership within military organizations and also to explore the effectiveness of a specific leadership model in a multinational context. Developmental leadership (DL) is a model used by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) since 2003. However, the aim is not to answer the question of if a certain leadership model has an effect or not and therefore legitimize or discard the use of it. It rather raises the question of why this leadership model has been chosen to become such an integral part of an organization. This thesis analyzes DL by classifying its components using Hofstede’s theory of cultural dimensions as a basis and compares the results with Sweden’s cultural dimensions to find a correlation. The results show a high correlation between DL and Sweden, but DL does not correlate with Belgium’s cultural dimensions. Sweden’s characteristics are also complemented by empirical data collected for the purpose of this thesis. According to this interview study with Swedish officers, even though DL is not consciously applied to their leadership styles, it coincides with the characteristics of their vision of an ideal leader. Moreover, DL consists of components that are suitable foundations for an effective multinational leadership.
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Saleh, Diana. "Interaction Design for Remote Control of Military Unmanned Ground Vehicles." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Interaktiva och kognitiva system, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-174074.

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The fast technology development for military unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) has led to a considerable demand to explore the soldier’s role in an interactive UGV system. This thesis explores how to design interactive systems for UGVs for infantry soldiers in the Swedish Armed Force. This was done through a user-centered design approach in three steps; (1) identifying the design drivers of the targeted military context through qualitative observations and user interviews, (2) using the design drivers to investigate concepts for controlling the UGV, and (3) create and evaluate a prototype of an interactive UGV system design. Results from interviews indicated that design drivers depend on the physical and psychological context of the intended soldiers. In addition, exploring the different concepts showed that early conceptual designs helped the user express their needs of a non-existing system. Furthermore, the results indicate that an interactive UGV system does not necessarily need to be at the highest level of autonomy in order to be useful for the soldiers on the field. The final prototype of an interactive UGV system was evaluated using a demonstration video, a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and semi-structured user interviews. Results from this evaluation suggested that the soldiers see the potential usefulness of an interactive UGV system but are not entirely convinced. In conclusion, this thesis argues that in order to design an interactive UGV system, the most critical aspect is the soldiers’ acceptance of the new system. Moreover, for soldiers to accept the concept of military UGVs, it is necessary to understand the context of use and the needs of the soldiers. This is done by involving the soldiers already in the conceptual design process and then throughout the development phases.
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Holst, Simon. "Trovärdig uthållighet : Differentierad uthållighet – soldatens överlevnad." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-792.

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Försvarsmakten beskriver i Arméns utvecklingsplan 2010-2020 att tre dygns uthållighet på taktisknivå inte är tillräckligt utan bör vara mer flexibelt så att den även passar mindre enheter som skall kunna verka över stora avstånd utan möjlighet till egen logistik. Syftet med uppsatsen är att utreda vad trovärdig uthållighet är. Att utreda om tre dygns uthållighet på taktisk nivå är tillräckligt eller om denna bör utökas till mer än tre dygn. I uppsatsen beskrivs vad som står skrivet i olika dokument från Försvarsmakten vilka styr uthålligheten. Det beskrivs även hur Försvarsmakten avser att uthålligheten skall se ut i framtiden. Detta kopplas sedan mot erfarenhetsvärden från slutrapporter från Afghanistan, rapporter från Försvarets forskningsanstalt och US Marine Corps samt en enkätundersökning genomförd med chefer från FS15, FS16 samt FS17. Uppsatsen visar på att det som står skrivet från Försvarsmakten inte alltid stämmer överens med hurdet ser ut i verkligheten. De flesta chefer som svarat på enkätundersökningen uppger att de tagit med mer förnödenheter avseende mat, vatten och ammunition till personligt eldhandvapen än de inriktningar som Försvarsmakten gett. Detta resultat tyder på att uthålligheten inte är trovärdig utan bör utökas för att i framtiden kunna skapa ytterligare möjligheter för soldatens överlevnad.


The Swedish Armed Forces describes in the document Arméns utvecklingsplan 2010-2020 that three days endurance regarding food, water and ammunition on a tactical level is not enough. It should bemore flexible so that it fits even smaller units which operate over great distances without the possibility of own logistics. The purpose of this paper is to examine what credible endurance is. To investigate whether three days endurance of tactical level is sufficient or whether this should be extended to more than three days. The paper describes what is written in various documents from the Swedish Armed Forces which govern endurance. It also describes how the Swedish Armed Forces relate to endurance in the future. This is then connected to experience values from the final reports from Afghanistan, reports from the Swedish Defence Research Institute and the U.S. Marine Corps and implement a survey of executives from FS15, FS16 and FS17. This paper shows that what is written from the Swedish Armed Forces are not always consistent withhow it looks in reality. Most officers who responded to the survey report that they have included more commodities for food, water and ammunition for personal weapon than the directions given bythe Swedish Armed Forces. These results suggest that endurance is not credible and should be expanded in order to create additional opportunities for the soldier's survival.

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Gussing, Fredrik. "Stress och ledarskap i en komplex miljö." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-808.

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Kumulativ stress kan påverka soldater vid en utlandsmission. Denna stress orsakas av små vardagliga händelser och tjänstgöringsrelaterade händelser under en mission. Syftet med denna uppsats är att fåen fördjupad förståelse av hur en stressad gruppchef påverkar sin grupp i en komplex miljö som i den typ av missioner som för närvarande genomförs i Afghanistan. Uppsatsen undersöker hur kumulativ stress har påverkat gruppchefer och deras förmåga att leda gruppen samt hur stressen som gruppchefen utsatts för har påverkat gruppen. Undersökningen baseras på intervjuer av informanter som varit på utlandsmission i Afghanistan och de beskriver sin gruppchef och händelser som skedde under deras tid på mission. Alla informanter var män mellan 20-25 år när de genomförde sin utlandsmission. Informanterna hade olika befattningar för att ge undersökningen en bredare bild. För att kunna koppla till teorier om ledarskap och kumulativ stress har även dessa beskrivits i en teoretisk genomgång. Resultatet visar att gruppcheferna har på något sett påverkats av stress och att detta har påverkat deras handlande och påverkat gruppen. Hur de har agerat i de stressade situationerna tycks vara relaterat till hur de har fördelat ansvar och byggt upp gemenskapen i sin grupp. De grupper som hade en stark sammanhållning och öppet förhållande till varandra både i arbetet och privat påverkades mindre av att gruppchefen var stressad.


Cumulative stress may affect the troops on a foreign mission. This kind of stress is caused by small daily events and service-related events during a mission. The purpose of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of how stress affects group team leaders in a complex environment in the type of missions that are currently implemented in Afghanistan. The essay examines how group leaders have reacted to cumulative stress during their time in the mission and their ability to lead the group. The study is based on interviews with informants who had been on foreign missions in Afghanistan. All respondents were male between 20-25 years when they carried out their mission abroad. The informants had different positions in order to obtain a broader picture. The informants were interviewed about their squad leader and events that occurred during the mission. To be able to connect to theories of leadership and cumulative stress summaries of these have also been described in the theoretical analysis. The result shows that group leaders are affected by stress and that has affected their behaviour and impact on the group. How they have behaved in the stressful situations appears to be related to how they have allocated responsibilities and contributed to the cohesion in their group. The groups that had a strong cohesion and open relationship with each other, both at work and in private, appeared to be less affected by the commander when he/she was under stress.

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Sundberg, Wallman Max. "I allmänhetens tjänst? : en fallstudie över intressekonflikter mellan kommuners fysiska planering och riksintressen för totalförsvarets militära del." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160955.

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Abstract The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the conflicts of interests that may arise between the differing land use needs of a municipal planning agency and The Swedish Armed Forces. The study is based on three distinct cases located in the municipalities of Umeå, Luleå and the region of Gotland; each respective case presents unique contextual factors at the local level and these also serves to exemplify the issue at a national level. The work has been carried out as a case study and the methods employed were research interviews, document-based research and literature studies. The results indicate that there are significant differences in the planning practice used by the respective municipal planning agencies and that employed by The Swedish Armed Forces in terms of differing aims, methods and outcomes. The study also highlighted how the outcome of each case was dependent upon a combination of contextual factors and the impact of external factors such as national politics, changing security policy, urban development and progression of the environmental legislation. In short, The Swedish Armed Forces is a land use agency that has had significant impact on the municipal planning in each of the locations that has been studied. In a Swedish context, their land use needs are classified as being of national interest and thusly have precedence over competing land use claims. These factors have combined to create conditions in which municipal planning is, to some extent, often restricted by the land use needs of The Swedish Armed Forces.
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Rigtorp, Johan. "Organizational Learning Capability in a Modern Army." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9159.

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Studies of organizational learning have found that military organisations can benefit from developing organizational learning. Successful implementation of organizational learning exists in the Israeli army. This study analyses the organizational learning capability of the Swedish army. By adopting the organizational learning capability theory by Visser and applying it to data collected through both documents and interviews, this study investigates the possible harmony and dissonance between the data. The findings discovered that while there is compatibility in two out of four dimensions, which is interpreted as the Swedish army having a good baseline to build their organizational learning; it also ascertained that there is a large dissonance regarding knowledge conversion. This is seen as a probable inhibitor for the implementation of organizational learning in the Swedish army. Specifically, is the lack of education in knowledge conversion seen as a large threat to the organization successfully implementing organizational learning. The study contributes to the research field with a comparison of the normative level and reality; in this it contributes with an understanding of which parts can be considered to facilitate and inhibit organizational learning. Furthermore, it gives the Swedish Army several recommendations to accelerate their capabilities in organizational learning.
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Tolliver, Joan Lee. "Veteran Reintegration." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1591382620327355.

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Linehagen, Frida. "Att (för)hålla sig till oskrivna regler : Kvinnliga militärers erfarenheter kring en mansdominerad organisation." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65120.

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Title: To keep yourself to unwritten rules: Military womens experiences in an organization of male dominationAuthor: Frida Linehagen The Swedish Armed Forces have traditionally been exclusively male, and risking life defending the country against the military attack by a foreign power has always been a privilege of a man. Over the last thirty-seven years the defence of our nation has become a shared responsibility between men and women. The Swedish Armed Forces has failed to fully integrate women into the organization. This is the reason why it is interesting to look into the issue taking into consideration the fact that there is still a significant gender imbalance today and plenty of room for progress remains. The purpose of the study is first and foremost to create the understanding of the experience the female military personnel bring to the organisation, their abilities and how they perform in the realm dominated by men. Interviews have been chosen as a method for the study. Nine women of the Swedish Armed Forces were interviewed. The data was analyzed in light of Pierre Bourdieus theoretical concepts Cultural capital, Field, Habitus, Masculine domination and the related Symbolic violence. The result of the study shows that the society puts demands to increase the equality between men and women in organizations where men dominate. At the same time the Armed Forces show inability and reluctance to address to the issue and create opportunities in order to bridge the gender gap. Women develop strategies not only to be able to contribute to the organisation they work for but also to advance in their military profession, to fit and rise to the top. For women in service it is a delicate balancing act between remaining a female and being fully accepted as a professional partner in the manly military culture.
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