Special Operations from a Small State Perspective: Future Security Challenges

Introduction.- 1. Swedish Special Operations Forces: How it all started - Colonel Hans Ilis Alm .- 2. Contemporary Hybrid Warfare and the Evolution of Special Operations Theory - Lt General Dennis Gyllensporre .- 3. The utility of Special Operations in small states - Colonel Ronny Modigs .- 4. Swedish Special Operations Forces in a Global SOF Network- Challenges, Recommendations and Benefits - MLI and JCA .- 5. Do we need to get smarter? Small state leadership - PBO .- 6. Managing Special Talents - CJE and JSI .- 7. Does methodological superiority lead the way for SOF into cyber operations? - AAA .- 8. Irregular warfare - a strategy for small states? - MMI .- 9. Framing SOF intelligence - AWE .- Conclusion.