What is the Problem Represented to Be? From Decommissioning to the Re-Establishment of the Gotland Regiment P18
Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2026

This article examines how problem representations in Swedish defense policy shaped the decommissioning, re-establishment, and subsequent expansion of the Gotland Regiment (P18), and how these processes reflect the coexistence of organizational anorexia and destructive growth within the Swedish Armed Forces. Using Bacchi’s (2009) “What is the Problem Represented to Be?” (WPR) approach, the study conducts a qualitative discourse analysis of policy documents, municipal reports, audit reviews, and m