Finns det ett samband mellan rekryteringskvalité och soldatkvalité

Sammanfattning: The Swedish Armed Forces have undergone a significant change where we have gone from recruitment through duty and replaced it with a voluntary based defence. Across Europe, countries that have undergone the same type of change demonstrate change in the quality of those recruited. The focus in this paper is how recruitment quality looks in Sweden after three years of volunteer based defence and if officers at P7 can see a change in quality on those recruited. This work aims to investigate whether soldier quality has changed from conscription recruited to voluntary recruited soldiers. The question that the work tries to answer is whether one can see a change in quality in soldiers and in that case how. The result can be summarized as one begins to see a change in recruiting quality but it is not something that is visible at the regiments. The main difference the officers lift up is that voluntary recruits are more motivated than conscript soldiers, which is consistent with prior research. Thus, one can not see any noticeable difference in the quality of soldiers.