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Attachéer och lärdomar i Vietnamkriget: Undersökning av de svenska attachérapporterna från Washington under Vietnamkriget 1965-1969.
Swedish Defence University.
2024 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This study is examining the Swedish military attachés reports from Washington regarding the Vietnam War. The focus is to find out if there are any lessons learned by the US military, and then also if these lessons learned are applicable for the Swedish military according to the rapports of the military attachés. This with the help of Tom Dyson’s theory about the lessons learned process in modern militaries. Where the process is turned into four steps, knowledge acquisition, management, dissemination and finally transformation. These four steps are also influenced by four factors, organizational theory, bureaucratic politics, culture, and neoclassical realism. The method used is qualitative text analysis with a hermeneutic viewpoint, where the focus it to interpret the rapports. The study shows that there are several rapports from the attachés regarding the Vietnam War, where rapports range from political problems in the US to the use of hovercraft on the rivers of Vietnam. The study further shows several instances where the US tactics in Vietnam have changed following the lessons learned theory four steps. The study shows that several of these lessons learned by the US in Vietnam were also interesting for the attachés for their applicability in the Swedish military. Lastly it showed that several of the theories factor might have played a part in how the rapports were presented from the attachés to the Swedish intelligence center.

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2024. , p. 44
Keywords [sv]
Vietnamkriget, Militärattachéer, Erfarenhetshantering.
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-12269OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-12269DiVA, id: diva2:1840266
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Militärhistoria
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Swedish Defence University’s Bachelor Program
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Social and Behavioural Science, Law
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Available from: 2024-02-23 Created: 2024-02-23 Last updated: 2024-02-23Bibliographically approved

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