- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 410
daftandbarmy said:They were quite proud of the fact that they could mobilize 1 million people in 4 days (out of a population of about 4 million).
I wonder if they have maintained that capability.
They claim to have recently increased their Army manpower, although it looks like Bde North remains the only standing manoeuvre force in peacetime. (There are a lot of schools, HQs and special organizations.) The total Armed Forces mobilization is over 80,000. They have conscription, but they take in only a fraction of the people who are registered.
Forsvarets:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Armed_Forces
The manpower for territorial defence still seems to reside in the Home Guard (HV), and this has been reorganized to have 5,000 people at a high readiness (24 hrs) component for anti-terrorism capability). The HV can mobilize over 56,000 troops, organized into local defence regions and units.
HV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimevernet
*Fixed links ~Staff