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The paper covers the development of TRM (Taktikreglemente för marinstridskrafterna). By using Dr. Geoffrey Till’s and James J. Tritten’s theories about doctrine development and development processes attempts to understand why the process with TRM looked like it did and why the content is the way it is.

The purpose is to make this a minor contribution to any future and further development of doctrine development processes.

The theory is based on Tritten’s theory of different concepts which affect a doctrine and a model of a cyclical doctrine development process created by Till.

The creation and development of TRM has been explained, based on interviews with persons involved with the project. Subsequently, an attempt to explain and understand the process is made by using the two theories.

The result shows that the process with TRM was not at all time a simple one. During the process a lot of focus has been on trying to harmonize Swedish operations and procedures with those of NATO. The knowledge about the document should be good hence the “bottom up” perspective in which it was written. Even though the writers did not use any specific theory, is it possible to show that the development of TRM may be a part of a cyclic process and that it largely was influenced by certain concepts.