Special Operations from a Small State Perspective

Future Security Challenges

Gunilla Eriksson, Ulrica Pettersson, Gunilla Eriksson, Ulrica Pettersson, Gunilla Eriksson, Ulrica Pettersson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783319439617
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Military Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

"Over the past dozen years special operations forces (SOF) have been one of the few areas of growth and expansion in a number of militaries. This growth and expansion, however, has not been mirrored by a comparable one in academic inquiries into the subject. Special Operations from a Small State Perspective - Future Security Challenges, which contains a wide range of perspectives from both practitioners and academics, makes a unique contribution to the literature and offers fascinating insights into the opportunities provided by and challenges confronting small states such as Swedenin their evolutionary development and use of SOF."

D r James Kiras, Associate Professor, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, The Air University,

Alabama, USA.

Table of contents

• Special Operations from a Small State Perspective
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Swedish Special Operations Forces: How It All Started
• 3 Contemporary Hybrid Warfare and the Evolution of Special Operations Theory
• 4 The Utility of Special Operations in Small States
• 5 Swedish Special Operations Forces in a Global SOF Network—Challenges, Recommendations, and Benefits
• 6 Do we Need to Get Smarter? Small State Leadership
• 7 Managing Special Talents
• 8 Does Methodological Superiority Lead the Way for SOF into Cyber Operations?
• 9 Irregular Warfare—A Strategy for Small States?
• 10 Framing SOF Intelligence
• 11 Conclusion
• References
• Index