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TACTICAL THOUGHT
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It is possible to label the content in the model according to commonly known military
unit names, each in relation to a context character. This results in the four tactical types;
Ranger tactics in a Regular Warfare context, Mechanized tactics in Regular Warfare,
Infantry tactics in Hybrid Warfare and finally Mechanized tactics in Hybrid Warfare.
This division is to be seen in principal because overlapping exists and strict boundaries
can be discussed.
The result was presented to Ms Brigitte LeRoux 175 during a seminar at the Swedish
National Defence College (SNDC) on 28 January 2013. The MCA result was viewed as
strong. The seminar was a co-arrangement between Uppsala University SEC 176 and
SNDC.
Discussion on differences in the tactical model
The labelling of tactical types with traditional military unit labels indicates differences.
In order to explain some principal differences in broad terms, the so-called basic
capabilities have been used. 177 They consist of; Command and Control, Intelligence/
Information, Protection, Sustainability, Mobility and Effects on targets. Requirements
of these capabilities are argued to be militarily usually viewed differently, depending on
what contexts and concepts are being discussed. This is supported by the existence of
doctrines and field manuals for different units and different contexts. In order to give an
overview of a way to outline principal differences of the four tactical types, the figure
on the next page has been made. The summarized characteristics draw from my own
understanding and experience of studies of warfare and war fighting capabilities. The
characteristics are to be seen as indicators of broad directions.
175 Brigitte LeRoux is Maitre de Conférences at the Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées (MAP 5),
CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) Université Paris Decartes and associated
researcher at the political research centre of Science-Po Paris (CEVIPOF/CNRS). She is a world leading
expert in GDA and has contributed to numerous theoretical research works and full-scale empirical
studies involving GDA. She has been Doctor Honoris Causa at Uppsala University since 2013, as
recognition of her work, including substantial support to the development of sociological research at
Uppsala University.
176 SEC, Sociology of Education and Culture is a research unit with numerous disciplines within the social
sciences and humanities. It is affiliated with several departments, primarily at Uppsala University. SEC is
a node in Scandinavia for research in the vein of certain French traditions founded by Pierre Bourdieu,
Jean-Paul Benzécri and others. The research areas include studies on cultural fields, history of education,
formation of elites, students’ trajectories, and transnational transformations of the educational and cultural
fields. There is also methodologically oriented work on geometric data analysis and prosopographical
methods. Important research tools are concepts such as capital and field. Prosopographical methods and
geometric data analyses are frequently used. Historical perspectives are crucial.
http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/
177 Reglemente för Markoperationer, (RMO), remiss 3 (2009), pp. 59-61.
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