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Centre for Land Warfare

The Centre for Land Warfare at the Swedish Defence University is a collaborative knowledge hub for research, education and development focusing on the land domain. Its activities are guided by military defence requirements and bring together expertise from the Swedish Defence University, the Swedish Armed Forces and external partners.

The Centre for Land Warfare is part of the Institute of Warfare at the Swedish Defence University. By connecting academic knowledge development with military practice, the Centre contributes to advancing knowledge of modern warfare and military capability development.

Support, coordinate and develop

The purpose of the Centre for Land Warfare is to support, coordinate and develop issues relating to the Army and the land domain within research, development and education. The Centre provides a long-term forum for exchanging knowledge and experience and can support activities including analysis, concept and method development, studies, and the development of education and professional expertise.

Its activities encompass both research and more directly practice-oriented activities. The focus, participants and working methods are adapted to the specific issue, requirements and form of collaboration.

How we work

The Centre for Land Warfare is organised as a flexible, network-based and project-oriented environment. Its activities include, for example:

  • academic and applied research
  • research into and conduct of wargames, staff rides and scenario-based exercises
  • seminars, workshops and educational activities
  • concept and method development, analysis and support for studies
  • exchanges of knowledge and experience with Swedish and international partners

Research areas within the land domain

  • Uncrewed systems and human–machine teaming in the land domain
  • Wargaming, staff rides and military pedagogy
  • The long-term development of Russia’s military capabilities
  • Lessons from contemporary wars and conflicts
  • Operations, tactics and multi-domain operations in a NATO context
  • Warfare in urban and subarctic environments
  • The military profession, will to fight and unit capability

Current projects and initiatives

Examples of ongoing work within and associated with the Centre’s broader research environment include:

This work addresses small uncrewed systems (sUxS), their significance for land warfare and human–machine teaming. It includes the projects Land Warfare in the Drone Era and Uncrewed Systems and Human–Machine Teaming in Land Warfare, as well as the research and publication initiative Drones in Modern Warfare.

Research, method development and practical activities relating to staff rides, wargaming, and scenario-based learning and assessment in professional military education. The work encompasses handbooks and methodological guidance, game development and delivery, and seminars.

Research into the development of Russian military capabilities and its implications for land warfare and Sweden’s defence capability.

Several researchers and projects analyse lessons from, among others, Ukraine and Israel and their relevance to doctrine, education, capability development and future land operations.

An emerging area of development examining the role of the land domain in multi-domain operations, interaction between domains, and command and coordination in an allied context.

Ongoing work on urban warfare and the development of a broader research agenda on warfare in subarctic environments.

A historical and contemporary project examining the tasks, development and contribution of the Swedish Home Guard to Sweden’s defence from 1940 to the present day.

Research into the will to fight and its relationship with the military profession, leadership, cohesion and unit capability.

Collaboration

The Centre for Land Warfare collaborates with the Swedish Armed Forces, other research environments, the defence industry, and Swedish and international partners through research, studies, seminars, workshops, exercises and wargaming activities.

Management and contact

Director: Lieutenant Colonel Dr Lars Henåker, Department of War Studies

Deputy Director: Docent Dr Mikael Weissmann, Department of Defence Systems

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