Tillämpning av flexibilitet i svenska militära styrdokument

Sammanfattning: Today's technological and unstable society places greater demands on military organizations to deal with military surprises and uncertainties. One method of dealing with these problems is by incorporating flexibility. Researcher Meir Finkel presents a theoretical framework that advances flexibility as a governing principle that enables military organizations to handle surprises and uncertainties. However, for military organisations there are two main problems with applying new methods on how they should act, firstly to translate it into concepts and operations, secondly to infuse the range of doctrines and regulations to influence the entire organization. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to increase the knowledge of how flexibility is applied in central military governing documents. And, to discuss any correlation between the documents and what effect the implementation may have on the organization’s flexibility. Since the Swedish Armed forces explicitly strive for flexibility, Finkel's theoretical framework aims to illustrate how flexibility has been applied. This was achieved by examining Sweden’s operational and naval doctrine through a qualitative text analysis. The result shows that flexibility plays a significant role in both Sweden's operational and naval doctrine as it has successfully been applied. Nonetheless, both doctrines present elements that may affect flexibility negatively and could therefore, limit the efficiency to deal with military surprises and uncertainties.