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Drawing on an archive of job ads, this chapter analyses the Swedish SIGINT agency's recent recruitment efforts and practical transformation into a Big Tech player focusing increasingly on in-house development of digital surveillance and computer hacking systems.

It argues that the recent integration of officer education in universities is only the latest stage in a 200 year long effort of mobilising academic capital for purposes of legitimating the warrior class and maintaining the standing of the military profession.

This is the first text in my new project on professional military education, with a focus on basic officer education in Sweden. It explores how the military academy has served as an extension of Norbert Elias’ ’civilising process’.