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1. 1. Special Air Service Under Falklandskriget : kan McRavens teori förklara Special Air Service framgångar och misslyckanden under Falklandskriget?

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Försvarshögskolan

   Författare :Nils Lundevall; [2019]
   Nyckelord :enkelhet; sekretess; repetition; överraskning; hastighet; syfte; McRaven;

   Sammanfattning : Special forces have been a part of nations military capabilities for quite some time but what is it really that they can contribute with that is beyond the means of more conventional forces, and how should an operation executed by special forces be conducted? During the Falklands war, the Special Air Service (SAS) performed numerous operations that were important to the overall campaign of retaking the Falkland Islands, but why were they successful, and in some cases unsuccessful?   This paper aims to utilise McRavens theory on relative superiority to see if it possible to explain why special operations succeed or fail. Through a qualitative case study, the principles of McRavens theory are applied on two separate operations which were conducted by the SAS during the Falklands war. LÄS MER