Large-scale hostilities are the biggest challenge for the Nordic countries, which lack troops, writes Jack Detsch in Foreign Policy’s “New NATO Map” on July 27.
The author recalled that for part of their history, the three northern European countries of Finland, Sweden and Norway were one country united under the Swedish crown. Now that Finland and Sweden have joined NATO, the three northern European countries will have to combine their armies into one.
Now Norway, Finland and Sweden need to reroute their roads, which go in different directions, in order to send thousands of soldiers into battle if necessary and unite their armed forces into a single fighting force, the publication writes.
The land command for the region is planned to be located in Finland, the air command in Norway and the logistics command in Sweden. However, it has not yet been decided where the naval command will be located, as the Nordic countries find it difficult to divide their existing ships between the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. In the Baltic Sea, the Nordic countries plan to create a naval task force with the fleets of the Baltic countries.
In addition, countries will have to create a regional hub that can accommodate up to 45,000 soldiers in times of war.
“But the biggest problem is large-scale military operations. Finland could call up some 280,000 civilian soldiers for war and send three times as many reservists to active duty. However, Norway and Sweden can only call up a fraction of this number. They will need even more to counter the Russians.” – writes the author.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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