NEUTRAL SWEDEN TO PREPARE FOR CHAOS: 200 years are not at war, and now introduce conscription

Sweden on Wednesday announced that from 2018, reintroducing compulsory military service, eight years after its abolition.

The Scandinavian country, which has not experienced any armed conflict on its territory back two centuries, recruitment is abolished 2010, stating that it is not a good way to create a modern army."I hope we will find our way to steadier, more functional and more powerful mode of recruitment," said Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist.The Minister explained that the number of volunteers is not enough to maintain a satisfactory quality of military education.The new policy will catch an Swedish young men born after 1999 are expected to join the army after 2018 every year to be invited 4,000 young men.

Since July 1, all men and women born in 1999 and 2000 will receive a questionnaire in order to choose among them 13,000 persons who will undergo testing.In the end, if a number of them, 4000 - 5000, will be offered training for a period of nine to 11 months that started on 1 January next year.Government agencies will be responsible for staffing, just like before. We will continue to keep the part of military personnel on a voluntary basis and thus achieve the goals set by Parliament as regards military capabilities - explains the Swedish Ambassador to Croatia Lars Schmidt.

That decision should adopt and parliament, and is expected to cast the government get the support of the opposition center-right.Swedish defense budget increased by 17 billion kronor (over 13 billion) for the period from 2016 to 2020. The total military budget is 49 billion kronor (about 38 billion), which amounts to 1.3 percent of GDP, and the government has decided to invest mostly in new equipment.

Currently regular Swedish army has 20,000 soldiers, 21,500 National Guardsmen and 10,200 members of the reserve force. They were divided into 13 air battle, 14 sea ports and 24 Battalion Army. The salary is individual and depends on the experience, age and responsibilities.Sweden is not a member of NATO, but the unease about Russia's intentions after the annexation of Crimea rekindled the debate should the country join the Alliance. Also, Sweden has implemented its forces on Gotland, an island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, which some military experts call "a huge aircraft carrier" that Russia could use in the event of military action.

We are not a member of NATO and we have no plans to join. The majority in Parliament agrees. Opinion polls are changed from time to time but still show support residue outside the Union. The government last year made a detailed analysis and concluded that it is in our interest not yet join NATO, but keeping tight cooperation in areas of common interest - explains Schmidt.

The government's decision is final. Even the 2015 Swedish Government established the Committee to analyze the consequences of the parliamentary directive in late 2016 recommended the Government to introduce military reforms. And a permanent intra-committee dealing with this topic, as well as the deterioration of relations in the region and increasing threats.The last time Sweden was at war with Norway in 1814. Although Švadska not in NATO, this move by the Swedish Government points to something larger that was beyond the hill.

Otherwise, the Kingdom of Sweden is a European record for the number of rapes by immigrants.Sweden, which is not officially at war in more than 200 years, will soon be povučema in the European conflict, according to an internal vojnm document that was sent to soldiers and civil servants before military maneuvers that were recently held.

• 4 Mar, 2017
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