Sweden abandons compulsory draft

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Originally Posted by Dowly

But yeh, you are right, Sweden is between two shields so to speak with Norway on one side and Finland on other.

Or maybe it is that a Russian invasion simply is no realistic scenario to take into account.

Sweden always was no big army in size, theoretically, so I read, they wanted to call up up to 750,000 soldiers in case of ware, but that would have been possible only after several months of organisation, retraining and refreshing courses. However, technologically, during the cold war and afterwards, the Swedish forces always have been amongst the very best. Many of their systems and platforms are top notch and some things they have that even the Americans cry for not having them themselves.