Arita Holmberg - The Swedish Presence in Afghanistan: Security and Defence Transformation

The Swedish Presence in Afghanistan

This book delivers on two analytical levels. First, it is a broad study of Sweden as an international actor, an actor that at least for a brief period tried to play a different international role than that to which it was accustomed. Second, the book problematizes the role of international military missions as drivers for change in the security and defence field. Several perspectives and levels of analysis are covered, from the macro level of strategic discourse to the micro level of the experiences of individual commanders. The book focuses upon Sweden and its participation in the international military mission in Afghanistan during 200212. It contributes to the growing literature evaluating the mission in Afghanistan and explores the implications of the security and defence practices that have dominated Western Europe for the last decade.

Arita Holmberg is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish Defence University, Sweden.

Jan Hallenberg is Professor in Political Science at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish Defence University, Sweden.

Military Strategy and Operational Art

Edited by Professor Howard M. Hensel, Air War College, USA

The Routledge Series on Military Strategy and Operational Art analyzes and assesses the synergistic interrelationship between joint and combined military operations, national military strategy, grand strategy, and national political objectives in peacetime, as well as during periods of armed conflict. In doing so, the series highlights how various patterns of civilmilitary relations, as well as styles of political and military leadership influence the outcome of armed conflicts. In addition, the series highlights both the advantages and challenges associated with the joint and combined use of military forces involved in humanitarian relief, nation building, and peacekeeping operations, as well as across the spectrum of conflict extending from limited conflicts fought for limited political objectives to total war fought for unlimited objectives. Finally, the series highlights the complexity and challenges associated with insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, as well as conventional operations and operations involving the possible use of weapons of mass destruction.

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The Swedish Presence in Afghanistan

Security and Defence Transformation

Edited by

Arita Holmberg and Jan Hallenberg

Contents

Arita Holmberg and Jan Hallenberg

Arita Holmberg and Jan Hallenberg

Jan Angstrom and Erik Noreen

Inger Osterdahl

Magnus Johnsson

Ake Sivertun

Gerry Larsson, Aida Alvinius, Maria Fors Brandebo, Peder Hyllengren, Sofia Nilsson and Alicia Ohlsson

Robert Egnell

Ralph Sundberg

Arita Holmberg and Jan Hallenberg

Aida Alvinius (Ph.D., Karlstad University, Sweden) is a researcher in Sociology at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University.

Jan Angstrom (Ph.D., Kings College, London) is Professor in War Studies at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University.

Maria Fors Brandebo (Ph.D., Karlstad University, Sweden) is a researcher at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University.

Robert Egnell (Ph.D., Kings College, London) is Professor of Leadership at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University.

Jan Hallenberg (Ph.D., Stockholm University, Sweden) is Professor in Political Science at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University.

Arita Holmberg (Ph.D., Stockholm University, Sweden) is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University.

Peder Hyllengren (M.A., Karlstad University, Sweden) is a university adjunct at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University.

Magnus Johnsson (Ph.D. Candidate, Uppsala University, Sweden) is a researcher in War Studies at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University.

Gerry Larsson (Ph.D., Gothenburg University, Sweden) is Professor of Leadership Psychology at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University. He also holds an adjunct professor position at the Hedmark University College, Norway.

Sofia Nilsson (Ph.D., Karlstad University, Sweden) is a researcher at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish Defence University.

Erik Noreen (Ph.D., Uppsala University, Sweden) is Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.

Alicia Ohlsson (M.A.) is a researcher in Psychology at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish Defence University.