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The three main areas of the Land Warfare Centre are education, development and training. The Land Warfare Centre educates the future commanders of the Swedish Armed Forces with the help of advanced training facilities, teachers and knowledge. It also educates and develops the Swedish Armed Forces' officers in the various areas of ground warfare.
The Swedish Defence Conscription and Assessment Agency (Swedish: Totalförsvarets plikt- och prövningsverk or Plikt- och prövningsverket), previously the Swedish Defence Recruitment Agency (Swedish: Totalförsvarets rekryteringsmyndighet), is a Government agency in Sweden which conducts recruitment for national service.
The commander of a military district, the Militärområdesbefälhavare (also called Militärbefälhavare [b]), commanded the Swedish Army divisions stationed in the region, the regional naval command, the regional air defence sector as well as the lower regional subdivision defence districts that made up the military district.
As recently as 2006, the Swedish military left many training areas in the Stockholm archipelago. For example, the entire island of Rindö became civilian property, and Huvudskär, Järflotta. In the northern archipelago, the defence ceased using most of the areas around Arholma, Svenska Högarna, and some of the many islets and skerries of ...
Prior to the Defence Act of 2004, the Swedish government considered that the Swedish Armed Forces' education system was both irrational and cost-driven, as training in technical service was carried out at the Försvarsmaktens Halmstadsskolor (FMHS) in Halmstad, the Swedish Army Technical School (Arméns tekniska skola, ATS) in Östersund and at the Swedish Naval Schools (Örlogsskolorna, ÖS ...
Map over military districts 1966–1990s. In connection with an organizational change in 1966, a name change was carried out in the military districts. The military districts took over the operational command, that is, the military district was responsible for war planning in the district in the event of war.
From 2019, the name Central Military Region was adopted. From 1 January 2020, all military regions are independent units subordinate to the Chief of Home Guard. In doing so, the regions also take over the command in peacetime from the training groups with their Home Guard battalions. Each military region has production management responsibility.
Attacks on military installations in Sweden (1 C, 5 P) F. Forts in Sweden (3 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Military installations of Sweden"