Swedish Defence University

Death by a thousand papercuts: professionals’ imaginaries on ethicalization and technological determinism of AI in Sweden

Abstract While Sweden’s sociotechnical identity relies on a firm foundation of the welfare state and a frontrunner status, its artificial intelligence (AI) trajectory increasingly clashes with global market realities. Analyzing interviews with 13 professionals across the industri...

Inverting the triangle of power: The military–industrial complex after Silicon Valley

The American military–industrial complex is currently undergoing a profound transformation, recasting the triangle of political, military and corporate power anatomised by C. Wright Mills. Anchored in federally directed scientific research and a shared elite commitment to the geo...

Military medicine in transparent large-scale combat operations: rethinking medical timelines as operational planning variables

Large-scale combat operations (LSCO) are increasingly shaped by persistent surveillance, precision strike capability, electronic warfare, contested mobility and repeated attacks on healthcare personnel and facilities. These conditions challenge a core assumption of military medic...