Det nya propagandakriget - En studie om det moraliska rättfärdigandet i användandet av psykologiska operationer

Sammanfattning: Seeking to identify alternative intervention techniques, to reduce mortality in war becomes more extensive. Some methods are met with more criticism than others. Psychological operations are not a new phenomenon, but starts to be used more and more, and is also a new addition for the Swedish Armed Forces. This paper therefore intends to explore how the moral justification for these operations might look like. The survey consists of an analytical framework of two ideal types which constricts each other, Consequentialism and Deontologin, both of which are rooted in the cosmopolitan thinking. The purpose with this framework is to have a discussion about what can be seen as morally justified or not. The trial will take place on psyops use in the Swedish Armed Forces' intervention in Afghanistan and how different forms of information that are sent can be justified differently based its accuracy in the information. The result shows that consequentialism as ideal type, is more accepted than deontologin, regarding the information’s correctness.