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Chart showing the size of the Swedish Armed Forces 1965–2010. Yellow = number of air wings; Blue = number of infantry regiments; Red = number of artillery regiments; Green = number of coastal artillery and amphibious regiments. Annual recruitment of GSS is assumed to be about 4,000 persons. [45]
The Swedish Army (Swedish: Svenska Armén) is the land force of the Swedish Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Sweden in Northern Europe / Scandinavia. The army's history dates back to the Swedish War of Liberation in 1521.
The number of military personnel in the reserve forces that are not normally kept under arms, whose role is to be available to mobilize when necessary. The number of personnel in paramilitary forces: armed units that are not considered part of a nation's formal military forces. The total number of active, reserve, and paramilitary personnel.
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In 2008 and 2010, the Swedish armed forces wanted to retire even more fighters and close air bases to relocate money to other branches. However, because of negative response from the public and pressure from the Swedish government, no cuts happened as of 2011. [32] [33] [34] [35]
The Swedish Navy (Swedish: Svenska marinen) is the maritime service branch of the Swedish Armed Forces. [3] It is composed of surface and submarine naval units – the Fleet ( Flottan ), formally sometimes referred to as the Royal Navy ( Kungliga Flottan ) – as well as marine units, the Amphibious Corps ( Amfibiekåren ).
This is a list of Swedish Army brigades. Brigades were introduced to the Swedish Army in 1948. Brigade size formations were phased out in 2000 and then reintroduced in 2010.
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