In 1993 William McRaven developed a theory about how special forces units could achieve relative superiority against a larger, well-defended force. To achieve relative superiority, the unit mustconsider the six principles that in one way or other effects the result and makes the difference between failure and success. But a lot have happened since 1993. September 11, 2001 marks as a turning point in the war against terror when al-Qaeda hijacked airliners and flew them straight into World Trade Center and Pentagon. President George Bush declared war against terror immediately, a war that still is beingfought today. Since then, the use of special operations forces has increased dramatically but studies about them remains far behind. The aim of this study is to analyze if McRavens theory remain relevant in modern conflictsagainst terror organizations. This was achieved by applying McRavens theory on two cases, Operation Neptune Spear and The Raid on Yakla. The result shows that the theory has explanatory power but when operating under highest secrecy, information remains restricted for scholars and researchers. Making it difficult to generalize a theory of units of this character.

The main purpose of the study is to understand how Vestiaire Collective’s campaign film #saynotofastfashion from 2022 visually communicates two different messages. One intentional message about an activistic positioning in the issue of textile waste as well as one unintentional message about white supremacy.   The material is investigated through a qualitative content analysis based on theories about activism in media and documentary narration, the white man’s guilt and postcolonial stereotypes in film. By splitting the material and analyzing text and image separately, markers for both messages are found. In a summarizing analysis the text and images separate communication are put in relation to each other in order to draw conclusions about the two part’s common message and function.   The study concludes that the meaning of the text as well as text and image together is to show Vestiaire Collective as a wholesome, conscious and charitable company. However the images also send the message that westerners are needed in order to solve problems in non-western countries. Vestiaire Collective’s film represents the dark skinned Ghanaians in a diminishing and colonially stereotyped way and themselves as heroes in line with the white-savior-stereotype.  Markers for activism are interpreted to be the way Vestiaire Collective are positioning themselves in the issue of textile waste as well as their suggestions and prompts for solutions. Another marker for activism is under which circumstances the film was published; in connection with Black Friday 2022 on social media.  The media production included below is a documentation of the process of making a short advertising film about a cancer story from a relative’s perspective.