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TACTICAL THOUGHT
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Figure 12. Distribution of the answer categories used for interpretation of axis 2.
Axis 2 is thus labelled “Contextual thinking” with tactics for military tasks with kinetic
approaches on the + side. This side might be said to represent a Regular Warfare
contextual thinking. The – (minus) side of axis 2 is interpreted as representing a broader
contextual framing, with thinking in a combination of military and civilian tasks and an
approach of non-kinetic effects. Such contextual thinking is prominent in descriptions of
so-called Hybrid Warfare, as described in the literature study. The result is partly less
obvious to interpret, compared to axis 1, still argued to be easily recognizable as having
traditional military logic.
With this interpretation result for structuring aspects in two dimensions of the space of
statements for axis 1 and 2, the results of axis 3 and 4 are now to be discussed.
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