ABSTRACT The rise of private military and security companies (PMSCs) challenges our notion of military professionals. PMSCs bring new claims to professional status and legitimacy outside military institutions and represent an increasing diffusion of - and competition over - military and security expertise. In light of this development, understanding the formation of professional identities in military and private security organisations is as an important undertaking. This paper contributes to this endeavour by analysing professional self-images in the Swedish Armed Forces and how these relate to PMSCs. The study is based on data collected from official documents, semi-structured interviews and a small-scale survey among senior military officers. Focusing on military understandings of PMSCs and contractors, the analysis provides much-needed insight into relational aspects of professional identity formation outside the US context. Furthermore, it points to discrepancies in organisational and group levels in understandings of commercial security actors, and paves the way for future research.

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市场与军事职业：以瑞典为例的竞争与变革

摘要 私营军事和安保公司 (PMSC) 的兴起挑战了我们对军事专业人员的看法。PMSC 为军事机构之外的专业地位和合法性带来了新的主张，并代表了军事和安全专业知识的日益扩散和竞争。鉴于这种发展，了解军事和私营安全组织职业身份的形成是一项重要的事业。本文通过分析瑞典武装部队的职业自我形象以及这些与 PMSC 的关系为这一努力做出了贡献。该研究基于从官方文件、半结构化访谈和对高级军官的小规模调查中收集的数据。专注于对 PMSC 和承包商的军事理解，该分析提供了对美国背景之外职业身份形成的相关方面的急需洞察。此外，它指出了组织和团体层面对商业安全参与者的理解存在差异，并为未来的研究铺平了道路。