Har Sverige genomgått en Revolutions In Military Affairs?

• Main Author: Osbeck, David
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Försvarshögskolan 2017
• Subjects: Revolutions in Military Affairs; RMA; Säkerhetspolitik; Domingo; strategiimplementering; Other Engineering and Technologies; Annan teknik
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6828

The most up-to-date definition of Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA) is defined by military an-alysts as the role of technology in transforming military affairs. Despite the amount of literature on how RMA impacts great powers the significance of RMA for small states is limited. Is RMA suffi-cient and suitable to define a change in small states security strategies? The purpose of this study is to analyze to what extent RMA can be traced in Swedish strategy implementation after applying Francis Domingo’s theory of small states security strategies. The method used in this essay is a case study that analyses to what extent RMA can be found and proven by using the strategy implementation factors defined in Domingo’s theory. The result of this study shows that only two out of four strategies can prove RMA in Sweden’s implementation of security strategies. The result gives reason for criticism due to Domingo’s the-ory’s inability to trace and prove RMA and its implication in a small state’s security strategies.