<p>Denna uppsats handlar om en komparativ studie om hur soldater upplevde krig, med fokus på</p><p>deras egna berättelser, det vill säga hur soldaterna uppfattade sin situation ur ett mycket</p><p>personligt perspektiv. Objekten i denna studie är de amerikanska soldaterna som frivilligt</p><p>sökte sig till kriget i Vietnam samt de frivilliga svenska soldaterna som under de första</p><p>missionerna åkte till det pågående kriget i Bosnien. Syftet med uppsatsen är därmed att</p><p>undersöka om de amerikanska och de svenska soldaterna hade liknande eller skilda</p><p>uppfattningar om de svårigheter som förekom genom att verka i en miljö som präglades av</p><p>död, lidande och att hamna i plötsliga, livshotande situationer. Resultaten av undersökningen</p><p>visar, trots de olika typerna av konflikter, att det förekom skillnader och även likheter i de</p><p>berättelser som skildrar synen på mod, rädsla, de inblandade parterna med mera.</p><p>Undersökningen utgår från gjord forskning av de amerikanska soldaternas brevkorrespondens,</p><p>vilket personligt och ingående skildrar deras situation. Gällande de svenska soldaternas</p><p>situation i Bosnien så beskrivs den ur ett antal undersökningar (intervjuer) samt ur två</p><p>biografier, vilket ligger till grund för en jämförelse i denna undersökning.</p>

Denna uppsats handlar om en komparativ studie om hur soldater upplevde krig, med fokus på deras egna berättelser, det vill säga hur soldaterna uppfattade sin situation ur ett mycket personligt perspektiv. Objekten i denna studie är de amerikanska soldaterna som frivilligt sökte sig till kriget i Vietnam samt de frivilliga svenska soldaterna som under de första missionerna åkte till det pågående kriget i Bosnien. Syftet med uppsatsen är därmed att undersöka om de amerikanska och de svenska soldaterna hade liknande eller skilda uppfattningar om de svårigheter som förekom genom att verka i en miljö som präglades av död, lidande och att hamna i plötsliga, livshotande situationer. Resultaten av undersökningen visar, trots de olika typerna av konflikter, att det förekom skillnader och även likheter i de berättelser som skildrar synen på mod, rädsla, de inblandade parterna med mera. Undersökningen utgår från gjord forskning av de amerikanska soldaternas brevkorrespondens, vilket personligt och ingående skildrar deras situation. Gällande de svenska soldaternas situation i Bosnien så beskrivs den ur ett antal undersökningar (intervjuer) samt ur två biografier, vilket ligger till grund för en jämförelse i denna undersökning.

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The study was conducted on 72nd company at Livgardet in order to find out what motivators makes the soldiers stay. The material in the essay is based on an interview with soldiers from the 72nd company. The motivators are then categorized in the model Employee Motivation: A Powerful New Model. The model is based on human drives and I used as a tool for the analysis to identify lack of motivation in a working place. The study shows that the key motivators that make soldiers stay is: the opportunity to go on a peacekeeping mission and comrade/esprit de corps, the soldiers state that they will quit without these two essential motivators. Furthermore there are eight more motivators that have deep impact on the soldiers’ motivation to stay in service. / Studien genomfördes på 72:a kompaniet på Livgardet i syfte att ta reda på vilka motivationsfaktorer som får soldaterna att stanna. Empirin bygger på en fokusintervju som genomfördes på soldater från 72:a kompaniet. Motivationsfaktorerna kategoriserades i modellen Employee Motivation: A Powerful New Model. Modellen grundar sig i människans drifter och fungerar som ett analysverktyg för att identifiera bristande motivation på en arbetsplats. Studien pekar på de främsta motivationsfaktorerna som får soldaterna att stanna är: Möjlighet till Utlandsmission och Förbandsanda/Kamraterna, utan dessa hade soldaterna slutat. Utöver dessa nämns ytterligare åtta motivationsfaktorer som motiverar soldaterna på 72:a kompaniet att fortsätta sin anställning i Försvarsmaken.

Det här arbetet undersöker hur soldatrekryteringen och beslutet att ta fortsatt anställning hos kontinuerligt tjänstgörande soldater påverkas av det ledarskap som praktiseras på deras förband. Som teoretisk utgångspunkt används modellen utvecklande ledarskap och ett perspektiv avseende destruktivt ledarskap. En enkätstudie, genomförd med 148 soldater vid tre olika arméförband, efterfrågar nivån på ledarskapet hos soldaternas senaste och nuvarande plutonchefer och undersöker sedan vilket samband det har med respondenternas syn på detta ledarskaps betydelse för deras beslut att ta och fortsätta sin soldatanställning. Resultaten visar att det finns ett statistiskt signifikant samband mellan ledarskapets nivå och den betydelse soldaterna tillmäter detta vid beslutet att ta och fortsätta sin soldatanställning. Utöver detta indikerar undersökningen en möjlighet att komplettera modellen utvecklande ledarskap med ett integrerat eller fristående perspektiv på destruktivt ledarskap.

The purpose of this thesis is to study how swedishness is constructed and narrated in two Swedish documentary series that picture the Swedish participation in the international ISAF mission in Afghanistan. The main focus lies on how the Swedish soldier as such is portrayed, on which values, characteristics and qualities that they are said to embody and how these are linked to notions of swedishness, particularly the strong historical narrative, formed during the second half of the twentieth century, that defines Sweden as a peaceful, neutral and humanitarian state, with peaceful, enlightened and democratically minded citizens. Theoretically it draws on the concept of metanarrative to explain how ideas of shared national origin translates in to a broad organizing discourse, that defines, interprets and communicates notions of what it means to be a Swede and what is needed to make claims on swedishness. Another concept, that of national bodyscape, is also used to further define and explain how ideas of nationality are embodied and take the form of specific characteristics and  personal qualities. The meaning-making in these two series makes use of the above mentioned definition of swedishness as defined by humanitarian concerns, democratic ideals and moral superiority to construct an image of the Swedish soldiers as on the one hand soft, humanitarians, who are needed in Afghanistan because of their especially strong sense of justice and moral, and, on the other, as tough soldiers, who are able to participate in every aspect of the war as fighters. These two images combined create a notion of a particularly Swedish type of soldier, who brings the separate roles of soldier, humanitarian worker and diplomat together and realises them in one individual, and who appears to be more capable in all these roles than both their American and Afghan allies. By shifting the narrative focus and change which part of the Swedish metanarrative that they choose to connect to, the series can also maintain the emphasis on the soldiers as Swedes, while at the same time showing them participating in situations or discussing aspects of their work that is not usually associated with swedishness, or that previously has not been a part of the broader metanarrative.

This bachelor’s thesis uses the prosopographical method of historical enquiry to examine the social composition of the sixth corporalship of Kalmar regiment’s sixth company during the period 1812-1815. Furthermore, the thesis aims to examine how the War of the Sixth Coalition affected the composition of the corporalship. The social composition of the soldiers is examined by studying their ages, birth places, service lengths, social backgrounds, marital statuses and family structures. Additionally, the impact of the War of the Sixth Coalition upon the corporalship is studied by examining how many of the soldiers died as a result of the war and how these soldiers were replaced. The information needed to study these factors are collected from source material consisting of army muster rolls and parish registers. Through analysis of this material this study shows that the majority of the soldiers were married men in the ages of 25-34 with 1-3 children. Furthermore, the majority of the soldiers were conscripted in their early 20’s and had, by 1812, already served for several years. Most of the soldiers were sons of former soldiers and were born in the same parish in which they later served as soldiers. The study also shows that several changes occurred in the composition of the corporalship during the studied period. Two of the soldiers were dismissed and replaced in 1812 and four of the 23 soldiers making up the corporalship died during the war, thus resulting in a change in the social composition of the corporalship.

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Huvudsyftet med föreliggande studie är att belysa soldaters upplevelser av stress under utlandstjänst, samt stress i övergången utlandstjänst till hemkomst med fokus på fysisk aktivitet och träningsvanor. Vidare var det av intresse att studera soldaters upplevelse av hjälp/stöd. Studien genomfördes via ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt utifrån två semistrukturerade intervjuguider och två olika intervjutillfällen. Samtliga åtta deltagare var män mellan 2553 år gamla med erfarenheter från olika typer av förband samt från olika missioner. Utlandstjänstgöringarna utfördes i länder som Afghanistan, Bosnien och Kosovo. Upplevd stress under mission beskrevs som rastlöshet vid ledig tid på campen eller en oro inför uppdrag. Under uppdrag kunde deltagarna uppleva kumulativ stress i ovissheten att något kan hända dem eller kollegorna. Deltagarna gav uttryck för liknande symptom vid hemkomst kopplat till stress då rastlöshet under ledigheten hemma beskrev som utmanade. Fysisk aktivitet visade sig ha en stressreducerande effekt vid rastlöshet och oro under utlandstjänst samt i övergången utlandstjänst till hemkomst. Dessa fynd kopplas till en diskussionsdel utifrån föreskrivna referensramar, samt även förslag till framtida forskning och implikationer. / The main purpose of the present study is to illustrate soldiers experinces of stress during deployment and in the transition from deployment to homecoming with focus on physical activity, stress and exercise habits. Further on, it was of interest to study the soldiers experience of help/support. The study was conducted using a qualitative approach from two semistructured interviewguides and two interview occasions. The soldiers age were between 2553 years. The soldiers in this study came from various types of units as well as various deployments that took place in countries such as Afghanistan, Kosovo and BosniaHercegovina. Stress during deployment was described as perceived restlessness during freetime on the camp. During operations could the participants exeperience cumulative stress wich could be shown as anxiety becausee of the uncertainty that something could happend to them or their colleagues in the unit. The participants expressed similar symptoms at the homecoming related to stress as restlessness during the holiday and anxiety. Physical activity was found to have a stressreducing effect during deployment and in transition deployment to homecoming. Results of the study were associated with prescribed theoretical frames of reference in the discussion. Finally suggestions for future research and implications are provided.

This essay explores a previously rather unexplored part of Swedish military history in the form of a Swedish volunteer in the great war named Sven Blom. The essay focuses on his mindset and thoughts regarding the war, his part in it as a combatant, and how these experiences changed his mindset regarding the war over time. Sven Blom, a Swedish man in his 30s, who lived in France at the outbreak of hostilities, chosed to side with his new countrymen and enlists as a volunteer in the French Foreign Legion. His enthusiasm and patriotism regarding the war changed slowly through his combat experiences. After he sustaines a serious case of frostbite throughout one of his feet, he is sent to recover at a hospital. He recovers, but does not enlist again. His mindset regarding the war is changed forever. The main source material of this essay is the two war-diaries written in Swedish by Sven Blom starting right before the declaration of hostilities to the time when he was discharged from the French foreign Legion. To analyze the material several books are used. Such as Svenskar i Krig, by Lars Gyllenhaal and Lennart Westberg, Det första världskriget by John Keegan, Ivan Lönnberg by Sören Björklund, Eldens återsken by Lina Sturfelt and Fallen Soldiers written by George L. Mosse.