Niklas Nilsson
Dr Niklas Nilsson is Associate Professor at the Land Operations Division, Department of War Studies an Military History, Swedish Defence University.
He is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Security and Development Policy, and Associate Editor for the Central Asia - Caucasus Analyst.
His research interests include international politics and security, asymmetric threats and hybrid warfare as well as military operations and tactics. He has researched and published extensively on security and conflict in the post-Soviet space, with a particular focus on the Caucasus and the Black Sea Region.
Prior to joining the Swedish Defence University in 2017, he was the Research Coordinator for the Swedish Network for European Studies and a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Government, Uppsala University.
In 2012-2013, Nilsson was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He has also spent longer stays as a Visiting Researcher at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, Tbilisi and at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Nilsson received his PhD in Political Science from the Department of Government, Uppsala University in 2015, with the dissertation “Beacon of Liberty: Role Conceptions, Crisis, and Georgia’s Foreign Policy, 2004-2012”.
His publications have appeared in academic journals such as Cooperation and Conflict, Foreign Policy Analysis, Defence Studies, Demokratizatsiya and Ethnopolitics.
His most recent publication is the edited volume Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations (London: I.B. Tauris, 2021), co-edited with Mikael Weissmann, Per Thunholm and Björn Palmertz.
He is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Security and Development Policy, and Associate Editor for the Central Asia - Caucasus Analyst.
His research interests include international politics and security, asymmetric threats and hybrid warfare as well as military operations and tactics. He has researched and published extensively on security and conflict in the post-Soviet space, with a particular focus on the Caucasus and the Black Sea Region.
Prior to joining the Swedish Defence University in 2017, he was the Research Coordinator for the Swedish Network for European Studies and a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Government, Uppsala University.
In 2012-2013, Nilsson was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He has also spent longer stays as a Visiting Researcher at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, Tbilisi and at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Nilsson received his PhD in Political Science from the Department of Government, Uppsala University in 2015, with the dissertation “Beacon of Liberty: Role Conceptions, Crisis, and Georgia’s Foreign Policy, 2004-2012”.
His publications have appeared in academic journals such as Cooperation and Conflict, Foreign Policy Analysis, Defence Studies, Demokratizatsiya and Ethnopolitics.
His most recent publication is the edited volume Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations (London: I.B. Tauris, 2021), co-edited with Mikael Weissmann, Per Thunholm and Björn Palmertz.
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Thereafter, the chapter presents two schematic models; the first locates land forces in the broader operating environment by outlining how the strategic environment, conflict intensity, interoperability, and multi-domain operations are constitutive enablers and/or constraints to activities in the land domain. The second outlines how the capabilities of forces in the land domain need to be understood as a function of the interaction between own capabilities, the adversary, the human- and physical terrain, and the information environment. The multidimensional demands placed on land forces in contemporary and future operational environments necessitate a conscious multi-pronged approach to the development of land warfare capabilities, aimed at gaining a versatile edge on tomorrow’s battlefields. In turn, this concerns both the build-up and construction of capabilities, and the means by which they are deployed and utilized in future conflict. The chapter argues that the achievement of versatility should be a crucial aim of contemporary land forces. As outlined in the integrated versatility model, versatility builds on two interrelated and mutually reinforcing qualities in a military organization, adaptability and flexibility. Together, they compose the underlying preconditions for truly versatile land forces.