The #isa2025 acceptance emails are in. It looks like I will be in Chicago in March next year. This will be my first ISA conference, and I look forward to it. Our panel, "Reconnecting military doctrine and concepts with theory," reflects the breadth of contemporary doctrinal research in the Nordics.

My take on some of the controversies about what doctrine is and how it should be applied: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access)

What we disagree about when we disagree about doctrine

Military doctrine is a form of organisational knowledge. Scholars argue that beneath written doctrine lies a set of deeply held beliefs about war and warfare that do not change even if the written ...

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