Dennis Gyllensporre

Lieutenant General Tage Dennis Gyllensporre, né Öztürkmen[1][2] (born 14 July 1964) is a Swedish Army officer. Gyllensporre has served as Director Joint Staff, head of the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters, head of the Swedish Armed Forces Special Forces and as the Commandant General in Stockholm. In August 2018 he was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).

Dennis Gyllensporre
Birth name	Tage Dennis Öztürkmen
Born	(1964-07-14) 14 July 1964 Skellefteå, Sweden
Allegiance	Sweden
Service/branch	Swedish Army
Years of service	1987–present
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	Director Joint Staff Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters Swedish Armed Forces Special Forces Commandant General in Stockholm MINUSMA
Battles/wars	Post-Bosnian War, Sudan, Afghanistan (ISAF), Northern Mali conflict

Career

Gyllensporre was born in Skellefteå, Sweden, the son of school counselor Güray Öztürkmen and his first wife Irene Johansson. He and two brothers took the name Gyllensporre.[3] He attended the Royal Institute of Technology from 1985 to 1991 when he received a Master of Science in Computer Science. He became an officer in the Swedish Armed Forces in 1987 and served as platoon leader and company commander in the Norrland Signal Regiment (S 3) in Boden from 1987 to 1995.[4] During this time Gyllensporre also studied at the Swedish National Defence College from 1993 to 1994 and from 1995 to 1997 and he attended the University of Warwick from 1994 to 1997 when he received a Master of Business Administration in Corporate Strategy.[5] He then served as a Nordic-Polish Brigade Liaison Officer to the US Division Headquarters (SFOR) in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 1998. Back in Sweden, Gyllensporre served as a Desk Officer for National and NATO/PfP Defence in the Planning Staff (J 5) at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm from 1998 to 2000.[5]

He then attended the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in the United States from 2000 to 2001 when he received a Master of Military Arts and Science[5] and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Award as the top international graduate.[6] Back in Sweden, Gyllensporre served as battalion commander, Headquarters Battalion, in the Norrbotten Regiment (I 19) in Boden from 2001 to 2002 and was then military advisor in Department for International and Security Affairs of the Ministry of Defence from 2001 to 2003.[5] Gyllensporre served as Chief Operations Officer of the Joint Military Mission in Nuba Mountains, Sudan from 2003 to 2004 before returning to the Ministry of Defence in Stockholm the same year.[4] In 2005 Gyllensporre passed the Joint and Combined Warfighting School (JCWS) at the Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University in the United States. The same year he also served as Chief of Staff in the Joint Forces Command (OPIL) in Uppsala. Gyllensporre then served as Chief of Doctrine and Concepts Branch, Policy & Plans Division, European Union Military Staff in Brussels, Belgium from 2005 to 2008.[5]

From January 2007 to November 2010, he attended the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance in Maastricht, Netherlands where he received a PhD in Policy Analysis and Governance.[5] During this time Gyllensporre also served as Chief of Staff of the Regional Command North Headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan in 2008. Also in 2008, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff (Ledningsstaben) in the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm. In 2010 he left the position and was appointed Director Future Capabilities in the Joint Staff (Chef för Ledningsstabens utvecklingsavdelning) in the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters, Stockholm. In 2011, he attended the Defense Resources Management Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School in the United States.[4] From 2012 to 2014, Gyllensporre served as military advisor in the Swedish Parliamentary Defence Commission (Försvarsberedningen) as well as head of Plans and Policy Department in the Joint Staff (Chef för Ledningsstabens inriktningsavdelning) in the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm.[5] On 27 November 2014, Gyllensporre was appointed Director Joint Staff (Chef för Ledningsstaben)[7] In this position he is also the head of the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters, head of the Swedish Armed Forces Special Forces and the Commandant General in Stockholm.[8][9] In 2017 Gyllensporre was introduced to the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Hall of Fame.[10] In August 2018 he was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Gyllensporre assumed the position on 1 October 2018.[11] In 2019 the UN Secretary-General extended the appointment one more year, until October 2020.

Personal life

In 1992 he married Helena Nordgren (born 1965). They have three children (born 1991, 1993 and 1997).[3]

Dates of rank

Gyllensporre family coat of arms.

• 1987 – Fänrik
• 1988 – Lieutenant
• 1991 – Captain
• 1994 – Major
• 2000 – Lieutenant Colonel
• 2005 – Colonel
• 2010 – Colonel 1st Class
• 2012 – Major General
• 2014 – Lieutenant General

Civilian academic merits

• Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering (1985–1991), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) Warwick Business School (1994–1998), University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
• Doctor of Philosophy, Governance and Policy Analysis Dual Career Programme (2007–2010), Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, University Maastricht, Netherlands
• Associate professor (Docent), Swedish Defence University (2015-), Stockholm

Honours

• Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (2011)[12]
• Member of the International Hall of Fame, United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) (2017)[13]
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Award as top international graduate of the CGSC (2001)[13]

Bibliography

Books

• Edström, Håkan; Gyllensporre, Dennis; Westberg, Jacob (2019). Military strategy of small states: responding to external shocks of the 21st century. Cass military studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781138483644. SELIBR cmk4n9sb9bf41dfj.
• Edström, Håkan; Gyllensporre, Dennis, eds. (2014). Alike or different?: Scandinavian approaches to military interventions. Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press. ISBN 9789173350396. SELIBR 16478804.
• Edström, Håkan; Gyllensporre, Dennis, eds. (2014). Svensk försvarsdoktrin efter kalla kriget: förlorade decennier eller vunna insikter? (in Swedish). Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press. ISBN 9789173350389. SELIBR 16478839.
• Edström, Håkan; Gyllensporre, Dennis (2013). Political aspirations and perils of security: unpacking the military strategy of the United Nations. New security challenges series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-00871-8. SELIBR 3914683.
• Edström, Håkan; Gyllensporre, Dennis, eds. (2012). Pursuing strategy: NATO operations from the Gulf War to Gaddafi. New security challenges series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-230-29280-1. SELIBR 12458796.
• Gyllensporre, Dennis (2012). Adding Nonlinear Tools to the Strategist's Toolbox. Biblioscholar. ISBN 978-1249403630.
• Gyllensporre, Dennis (2010). Competing and Complementary Perspectives on the EU as a Crisis Management Actor: An Examination of the Common Security and Defence Policy Through the Lenses of Idealism and Realism. Maastricht: Boekenplan. ISBN 9789086661725.

Articles

• ”Decision Navigation: Coping With 21st-Century Challenges in Tactical Decision-making”. Military Review 83 (5): pp. 20-31. 2003. ISSN 0026-4148.

• ”L’evolution de la Doctrine Militaire de l’UE”. Défense Nationale et Sécurité Collective 64 (2): pp. 73-81. 2008. ISSN 1950-3253.
• ”International Legality, the Use of Military Force, and Burdens of Persuasion: Self-Defense, the Initiation of Hostilities, and the Impact of the Choice Between Two Evils on the Perception of International Legitimacy”. Pace Law Review 20 (2): pp. 484-543. 2010. ISSN 0272-2410.
• ”Militära reflektioner om officersprofessionen”. Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift (1.häftet): pp. 23-33. 2014. ISSN 0023-5369.
• ”How much is enough? An examination of military strategic planning at the Swedish Armed Forces”. Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift (2.häftet): pp. 6-27. 2014. ISSN 0023-5369.
• ”Observing War – Keeping Peace? Unpacking the Military Strategy of UN Non-Force Missions”. Journal of International Peacekeeping 18 (3-4): pp. 290-317. 2014. ISSN 1875-4104.
• ”Minding the Gap between Words and Deeds: Towards a New EU Strategy on Security”. European Foreign Affairs Review 20 (1): pp. 3-22. 2015. ISSN 1384-6299.
• ”On the future of conventional warfare: From closed minds to open systems”. Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift (4.häftet): pp. 136-147. 2015. ISSN 0023-5369

References

1. Sveriges befolkning 1970 (in Swedish) (Version 1.00 ed.). Stockholm: Sveriges släktforskarförb. 2002. ISBN 91-87676-31-1. SELIBR 8861349.
2. Sveriges befolkning 1980 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Sveriges släktforskarförb. 2004. ISBN 91-87676-37-0. SELIBR 9632925.
3. Odelberg, Wilhelm; Bäckmark, Magnus, eds. (2003). Svenska släktkalendern (in Swedish). 29. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. pp. 141–142. ISBN 91-22-02008-X. SELIBR 9972937.
4. "CURRICULUM VITAE" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Armed Forces. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
5. "Lieutenant General Dr Dennis Gyllensporre, Chief of Defence Staff, Swedish Armed Forces" (PDF). www.euro-defence.eu. Berlin Security Conference. October 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
6. https://www.facebook.com/USACGSC/posts/us-army-command-and-general-staff-college-adds-three-leaders-to-international-ha/10155795934754458/
7. "ÖB får förlängt och ny chef för ledningsstaben utsedd" (in Swedish). Swedish Armed Forces. 27 November 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
8. Försvarets författningssamling: FFS 2013:4 (PDF) (in Swedish). Stockholm: TF-redaktionen, Försvarets materielverk. 2013. pp. 11, 33. SELIBR 3683131. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
9. "Handbok: parad 6: Traditionsvård : H PARAD 6 2016" (PDF) (in Swedish). Stockholm: Försvarsmakten. 2016. p. 44. 170529–027. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
10. https://www.army.mil/article/195273/command_and_general_staff_college_adds_three_leaders_to_international_hall_of_fame
11. "Gyllensporre ny chef för FN:s insats i Mali" (in Swedish). Swedish Armed Forces. 30 August 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
12. "Matrikel" (in Swedish). Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
13. Sarles, Harry (12 October 2017). "Command and General Staff College adds three leaders to International Hall of Fame". United States Army. Retrieved 20 November 2017.

Military offices
Preceded by ?	Plans and Policy Department in the Joint Staff 2012–2014	Succeeded by Jonas Haggren
Preceded by Jan Salestrand	Director Joint Staff 2014–2018	Succeeded by Jonas Haggren
Preceded by Jan Salestrand	Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters 2014–2018	Succeeded by Jonas Haggren
Preceded by Jan Salestrand	Swedish Armed Forces Special Forces 2014–2018	Succeeded by Jonas Haggren
Preceded by Jan Salestrand	Commandant General in Stockholm 2014–2018	Succeeded by Jonas Haggren
Preceded by Jean-Paul Deconinck	Force Commander of MINUSMA 1 October 2018–present	Succeeded by Incumbent