Resilience and Resistance in the Digital Age: Revisiting the Threshold Effect in Total Defence

Berg, Elin; Pettersson, Ulrica

doi:10.57767/jobs_2022_0013

Journal on Baltic Security

Resilience and Resistance in the Digital Age: Revisiting the Threshold Effect in Total Defence

Volume 8, Issue 2 (2022), pp. 41–60

Elin Berg Ulrica Pettersson

https://doi.org/10.57767/jobs_2022_0013

Pub. online: 19 October 2022 Type: Research Article

Open Access

Received
5 July 2022

Accepted
10 October 2022

Published
19 October 2022

Abstract

For several years, the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF), M. Bydén, has acknowledged the significance of digital security threats (Bydén, 2017). Even now, he continues to stress the importance of taking such threats seriously; ‘Sweden is attacked everyday by means that harm our society today and in the more long-term. We are not in a military conflict on and about Swedish territory, but we are in a conflict about the values we want to uphold and interests we want to be handled in a democratic way’ (Dagens Nyheter, 2022).

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