In an excellent in-depth ethnography Tone Danielsen describes and analyzes a unit of the Norwegian Special Forces. Combining keen anthropological insights and sensitive interpretation of empirical examples, she offers a model analysis of the kind of unit that is increasingly taking center stage today's globalized conflicts.

- Eyal Ben-Ari, Kinneret Center for Society, Security and Peace,

Tone Danielsen accomplishes a remarkable feat in modern anthropology: gaining access to a remote and insular special operations “tribe,” the Marinejegerkommandoen, or the Norwegian version of the Navy SEALs.  Few outsiders gain access, much less their trust.  Her keen observations and penetrating insights, gained over more than a decade of field work, shed light on the unit’s selection process, forging of identity, and their collective decision making process—the seaman’s council.  In doing so, Danielsen’s work takes its place among the handful of serious, scholarly works in the emerging field of special operations.

- James Kiras, Air University,

By using innovative qualitative methods and gaining unparalleled access to her research subjects, Dr. Danielsen has not only written a landmark study of the Norwegian special operations forces community but  one which will also stand as a model for research on other country’s SOF. Making Warriors in a Global Era is a critical addition to the emerging literature on qualitative approaches to the study of the military in general and special operations forces in particular.

- Christopher Marsh, Joint Special Operations University,