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Notes
1. Kurt Karlsson, “The History of Flygvapnet,” in Flygvapnet: The Swedish
Air Force, ed. Raymond Andersson, Kurt Karlsson, and Anders Linnér (Stockholm:
Swedish Air Force, 2001), 85.
2. Ibid., 106.
3. Ibid., 124–25; and Gunnar Åselius, “Swedish Strategic Culture after
1945,” Cooperation and Conflict: Journal of the Nordic International Studies Association
40, no. 1 (2005): 27.
4. Bertil Wennerholm, Fjärde flygvapnet i världen? Doktrinutveckling i det
svenska flygvapnet i försvarsbesluten 1942–1958. Underlag, beslut och genomförande
i nationellt och internationellt perspektiv [The fourth Air Force in the
world? Doctrine development in the Swedish Air Force in the long-term parliamentary
defence acts of 1942–1958. Foundations, resolutions and implementation
in a national and international perspective] (Stockholm: SNDC, 2006),
263; and Wolfgang A. Schmidt, Die schwedische Sicherheitspolitik: Konzeption:—
Praxis—Entwicklung, Beiträge und Berichte, monograph no. 88 (St. Gallen,
Switzerland: Hochschule St. Gallen, December 1983), 146–47.
5. Lars Wedin, “La pensée navale suédoise après 1945,” Institut de Stratégie
Comparée, http://www.stratisc.org/PN7_Wedin.html.
6. Schmidt, Die schwedische Sicherheitspolitik, 147.
7. Wedin, “La pensée navale suédoise après 1945.”
8. Schmidt, Die schwedische Sicherheitspolitik, 147.
9. Ibid., 147–48.
10. Wedin, “La pensée navale suédoise après 1945.”
11. Schmidt, Die schwedische Sicherheitspolitik, 168–69; and Bitzinger, Facing
the Future, 2.
12. Robert W. Komer, “Sweden’s Role in the Security System of the High
North,” in Proceedings of a Symposium on Changing Strategic Conditions in the
High North, ed. Ingemar Dörfer and Lars B. Walin (Stockholm: The Swedish
National Defence Research Establishment, 1990), 77.
13. Bitzinger, Facing the Future, 7, 13.
14. Ibid., 2.
15. See National Defence Academy, Report: Austrian and Swedish Security
Policy, series 6/98 (Vienna: Schriftenreihe der Landesverteidigungsakademie,
1998), 65, 70.
16. Ingemar Dörfer, The Nordic Nations in the New Western Security Regime
(Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1997), 42.
17. Åselius, “Swedish Strategic Culture after 1945,” 25.
18. Ibid., 39.
19. Bitzinger, Facing the Future, 32–33.
20. MOD, Sweden, “The New Defence,” summary of Government Bill
1999/2000:30, presented to Parliament on 25 November 1999, http://www
.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/574/a/25639, 4; and Dörfer, Nordic Nations, 40.