In the last decade, a new term, hybrid war, has been surfacing amongst scholars of warfare. The latest Swedish Military Strategic Doctrine also uses the term. Proponents of hybrid warfare use the term to describe the area where regular warfare and irregular warfare intersect and blend to create a new form of warfare. This thesis uses the Williamson Murray and McGregor Knox definitions of Military Revolution (MR) and Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) in order to determine if hybrid warfare falls under MR or RMA.As necessary, insights from other sources have further helped define Murray and Knox's concept of MR and RMA. The purpose of this thesis is not to settle an argument about the validity of the concept off hybrid warfare. Neither does it propose to verify whether there are grounds for using the term hybrid warfare or not in the Swedish Military Strategic Doctrine. The thesis simply tries to analyze a concept brought forward in recent theoretical military discourse. Based on the above, this thesis will not suggest any doctrinal changes or concepts of training for hybrid warfare. It will not suggest any changes to the current force structure within the Swedish Armed Forces. Only the term hybrid warfare will be examined, not the term hybrid threats. Due to the limited scope and depth of this study, it is unfeasible to determine degrees of correlation of MR and RMA; furthermore, all conclusions are tentative without validation by more extensive studies.

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