Special Operations from a Small State Perspective: Future Security Challenges [Hardcover]

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.

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

Alabama, USA.

Introduction.- 1. Swedish Special Operations Forces: How it all started - Colonel Hans Ilis Alm.- 2. Contemporary Hybrid Warfare and the Evolution of Special Operations Theory - Lt General Dennis Gyllensporre.- 3. The utility of Special Operations in small states - Colonel Ronny Modigs.- 4. Swedish Special Operations Forces in a Global SOF Network- Challenges, Recommendations and Benefits - MLI and JCA.- 5. Do we need to get smarter? Small state leadership - PBO.- 6. Managing Special Talents - CJE and JSI.- 7. Does methodological superiority lead the way for SOF into cyber operations? - AAA.- 8. Irregular warfare - a strategy for small states? - MMI.- 9. Framing SOF intelligence - AWE.- Conclusion.

Dr Pettersson is a researcher at the Swedish National Defence University, employed by the Swedish Armed Forces since 2000. She hollC%