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Cyber is a multifaceted concept that is a relatively new area of research in war studies. When a con-cept contains several underlying attributes without a clear presentation, it can create ambiguities which attributes that explain what in a joint operation. It is important to have a similar understand-ing of how concepts are used to promote the ability to cooperate and enable the exchange of infor-mation and the implementation of activities in a similar way.

A challenge in cyber operations is that the domain does not follow the natural boundaries that exist in the traditional domains, air, land and maritime. This argues that a cyber operation places greater demands on collaboration among the nations who´s going to conduct the operation.

The purpose of this essay is that through John Gerring's concept theory "what makes a concept good?" analyze the concepts of cyber and how they are presented in Sweden's and NATO's doc-trines in joint operations, DGO and AJP-3. The result is then compared and presents an understand-ing of how it should be perceived in a joint operation.

The results of this study show that the conceptual definitions of cyber differs between the doctrines to that extent that the definitions themselves are not comparable. But at the same time, there are similarities in several aspects such as within domain operations and risk/opportunity valuation.