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The Swedish Armed Forces consists of three service branches; the Army, the Air Force and the Navy, with addition of the military reserve force Home Guard. Since 1994, the first three service branches are organized within a single unified government agency, headed by the Chief of Defence , while the Home Guard reports directly to the chief.
Mandatory conscription was re-activated by the then Social democratic government in 2017, which cited increased threats to national security. [2] The Swedish Armed Forces planned to call 4,000 recruits annually for basic military training in 2018 and 2019. [3] As the relevant age cohort was about 100,000, this meant that roughly 4% were to be ...
A British Army Reserve lieutenant colonel during a training exercise at Lulworth Cove in Dorset. In countries with a volunteer military, reserve officers are personnel with an officer's commission who have signed a contract to perform part-time military service. They have civilian status, except when carrying out their military duties.
The bands, with diverse military musicians, fulfil the task to replace professional military bands. Throughout Sweden, there are about 32 Home Guard bands which total more than 1,500 members, such as Södertörn Home Guard Band. 17 bands are qualified for performance at state ceremonies, royal visits and festivities. Aside from the bands, Home ...
A military reserve is different from a military reserve force, which is a military organization composed of military personnel who maintain their military skills and readiness in a long-term part-time commitment to support their country if needed. Military reserve refers to specific trained pre-organized forces operating on an on-call basis ...
The Swedish Army (Swedish: Svenska ... logistics battalions and 4 reserve heavy armoured battalions ... the Swedish government embarked upon a massive and ambitious ...
As of the Defence Act of 2004, the Swedish Armed Forces has abandoned the traditional doctrine of invasion defence and moved on to a doctrine of operational defence. The 2004 act also decided that the military was to establish the Nordic Battlegroup , consisting of troops from Estonia , Finland and Norway (and later, the Republic of Ireland was ...
The Ministry of Defence (Swedish: Försvarsdepartementet) is a ministry in the Government of Sweden responsible for policies related to national defence and civil defence. The ministry is currently headed by the Minister for Defence , Pål Jonson of the Moderate Party .