The organisation´s capacity for flexibility, e.g. to be able to adjust the organisation´s activities, has become an increasingly important question for different organisations, especially within the Swedish Armed Forces. In this study we have paid attention to the organisation´s possibilities for flexibility starting with how the organisation make use of its structure, its resources and competence in order to achieve flexibility. Two different types of organisations can be distinguished, the implementation organisation and the flexible organisation. The first emphasize distinct decisions, conditions of responsibility, information, planning, uniformity. The second emphasize the organisation´s organic structure, learning, analysis and to question what one is doing. The study shows that both the ability to be distinct and a more organic ability is crucial for the flexible organisation, the twa, logicians has to be balanced. The command and control study´s method of handling the problerns within the Swedish Armed Forces represent the distinct organisation. We want to emphasize the need to balance with the need to observe how the means of controlling the operations guarantee the long and short term learning from experience. The Swedish Armed Forces means of controlling the operations consequently becomes a tool for flexibility, not only a limited measuring instrument.