Nordic defence cooperation
Defence partnerships with other countries are becoming increasingly important to Sweden's ability to develop and maintain military capabilities, both nationally and during international missions.
Why Nordic defence cooperation is important
Continued defence cooperation between the Nordic nations is considered especially important for a number of reasons: it will help meeting future operational requirements; improve security in our part of the world and enable countries to take greater joint responsibility for regional security; be better equipped to participate in international missions; offer more opportunities to boost efficiency, quality; and to broaden military capabilities.
Nordic cooperation complements international partnerships
Cooperation of this type does not entail mutual defence obligations. Rather, it complements our partnerships with international bodies such as the UN, EU and NATO, and will be conducted within the auspices of existing Nordic partnerships.
Areas of Nordic defence cooperation
The vision of future Nordic defence cooperation includes a number of common elements. For example, troop contributions to international peace missions, development, procurement, maintenance and further development of materiel, officer training and exercises.
Strengthening military capability through cooperation
In essence, it is about finding solutions that enable efficiency and rationalisation gains to be achieved through common readiness that should deliver greater operational efficiency, as well as improved quality, cost effectiveness and ability to maintain a wide set of capabilities.
Future development
This also feeds through to procurement and the Nordic defence sector, with enhanced scope to acquire systems tailored to Nordic and global requirements. In the long-term, the Swedish Armed Forces anticipates increased scope for the common training and deployment of military units.