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SPECIALFÖRBAND
Ulrica Pettersson
MVI/LVA
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Utilizing Special Forces in the shadow of Russia:
Unconventional Warfare in the Baltic Sea Region
Pettersson, U. (FHS/LVA) Stringer, K. (JSOU) och Eriksson, G (FHS/KVA)
Submitted 2014 till PRISM1
Editor and research director, Michael Miklaucic
Utilizing Special Forces in the shadow of Russia:
Unconventional Warfare in the Baltic Sea Region
Abstract
“Pure military skill is not enough. A full spectrum of military, paramilitary, and civil action must be combined to produce success. The enemy uses economic and political warfare, propaganda and naked military
aggression in an endless combination…Our officers and men must understand and combine the political,
economic, and civil actions with skilled military efforts.”(President John F. Kennedy, 1962) 2
The Russian remilitarization, the annexation of Crimea and the situation in Eastern Ukraine puts a renewed
focus on security issues in northern Europe. The strained security situation is especially troublesome for the
smaller states in the Baltic Sea Region. Today’s strain on the international relations has made territorial defense resurface to the security agenda. Thus, it implies a need to reconsider the national security and military
strategy. For the first time in decades, these states have to consider military actions in the “strategic near
abroad” instead of international contexts such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Therefore, as the new security threat
in the region calls for improved strategic thinking and planning, there is a need to ask; what is it then that
characterizes the military threat facing the Baltic Sea States? And what military structures and capabilities
are already in place that could help counter those kinds of threats?
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PRISM is published by the National Defense University Press for the Center for Complex Operations.
2
US Joint Publication 3-05.1, Unconventional Warfare (-Revision First Draft), 2014
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In response to these questions we argue that the states in the Baltic Sea region face a kind of multifaceted
hybrid threat to national security (with a component of military threat). The emergence of such a threat to
security suggests a need for a ‘total defence strategy’, embracing a robustness and resilience in society at
large, and in particular find new ways to utilize the existing military structures and capabilities.
Keywords
Unconventional Warfare, Hybrid threats, Special Forces Operations, Baltic Sea region.