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Brigadier General Anders Persson appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor for the Swedish Defence University10 Aug 2022The Swedish Defence University's Vice-Chancellor has appointed Brigadier General Anders Persson Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and thus the highest ranking military of...
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New study on narrative-based influence operations15 Jun 2022Influence operations can be effective even when the disseminated message is not logical or consistent with the recipient's previous experience. This is the find...
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How scientific ideas are reflected in practices of war31 May 2022The second edition of Antoine Bousquet’s book The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity has recently hit the shelves an...
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Information operations of influence have less impact than we think12 May 2022In a new review article, Claes Wallenius, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Command and Control at the Swedish Defence University, looks at what research says a...
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“The biggest challenge is the information flow”08 Apr 2022The international staff exercise VIKING 22 has been completed with over 2,000 participants from five different countries. The main aim of this year's exercise w...
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"Both Russia as a nation-state and Putin can be held accountable for violations of international law"29 Mar 2022International law establishes a set of universally accepted rules that govern the relations and actions of nation-states during peace and conflict. But what too...
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Feminism seen as a security threat17 Mar 2022Swedish people consider authoritarian ideologies to be a dominating source of concern. This is a key finding in a recent study that examines how perceptions of...
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Younger men more engaged regarding Russian information influence01 Mar 2022Men and younger people are clearly over-represented in terms of who consumes and distributes content from the Russian-supported news channels RT and Sputnik. Th...
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The importance of collaboration for defence development18 Feb 2022How can policy makers, industry and academia collaborate to promote technology development in defence and security? Hans Liwång explores this in a new study pub...
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“Unrecognised ordinary people often seek alternative ways to make their security concerns heard”31 Jan 2022Akinbode Fasakin’s PhD thesis investigates subaltern security issues in postcolonial Africa with a special focus on Nigeria. Based on a synthesis of securitizat...