Talk:Swedish Armed Forces

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[edit] Swedish Armed Forces to Military of Sweden?

Almost every single one of the 128 articles in Category:Militaries is in the form 'Military of country'. Sweden should probably also be. Lets move it back to 'Military of Sweden' •→Iñgólemo←• 04:08, 2004 Sep 22 (UTC)

No, lets not do that. I think we should move all those articles from their generic "Military of XYZ" to their proper names instead. I guess most militaries have official english names we can use. -- Jniemenmaa 07:13, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Agreeing with Jniemenmaa. Military of country sounds very generic. When an armed force of a country has an official name in English, why not use it? Maybe remove the redirect from Military of Sweden, and write a short article about the history of the SAF and what it has done through the centuries, with links to the proper pages of the Armed Forces, Army, Air Force and Navy? feldgrau 19:28, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The article covers a specific agency of the Swedish government; The Swedish Armed Forces, or Försvarsmakten. Virtually no military activity in Sweden exists outside it. There are other agencies under the ministry of defense however they primarily relate to security policy and defense, and defense is an issue which is wider than military defense. What is really lacking is a comprehensive structure to cover this. However, the main problem seems to be that this information and these articles have not been written yet. A possible stucture for this would be:

  • Security policy
    • Security policy by country
      • Security policy of Sweden
        • Swedish neutrality
        • ...
        • Swedish Department of Defense
          • Swedish Emergency Management Agency
          • ...
          • Military of Sweden
            • Swedish Armed Forces
              • Swedish Army
              • ...
            • Swedish military history

A Military of Sweden entry would presently be little more than a stub linking to this article and to military history, but perhaps that is needed. Anything more that fits under it? -- Mic 21:48, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Change "non-navy Marine Forces" to "Naval amphibious forces"

Under Military Ranks the article says "non-navy Marine Forces" when referring to the Amfibiebataljon. Considering that the Amfibiebataljon is part of the Navy, shouldn't this be renamed to Naval amphibious forces? --Edward Sandstig 22:20, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change the table to look like this

Military Servie and Home Defence Ranks
Swedish English US Army Brittish Army
Sergeant Sergeant Corporal
Furir Corproal, Private First Class Lance Corporal
Korpral Trainee
Menig Private

Rationale:

  • Classifications such as “underofficer” and “underbefal” were abolished some 30 years ago.
  • No military personnel with the rank of Fanjunkare, Overfurir, Vice Korpral anyomore
  • Sergeant does not correspond to Master Sergeant, Furir to Sergeant, and Korpral to Corporal.

[edit] Discussion - ranks

Compare the ranks at Swedish Army rank insignia with the table on this page. They do not match. I have been looking into the ranks, comparing them with the US system, and the ones at Swedish Army rank insignia seems to be more correct, looking at the actual responsibility by the different ranks. Why not just link to the latter page? 216.111.97.126 20:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] lang-se is wrong

Using lang-se (Northern Sami: Försvarsmakten) shows us the wrong language. The language of Sweden is swedish, not northen sami. What can be done about it? (I have not yet an account) 213.113.216.87

That's because the ISO language code for Swedish is sv and not se. Fixed. – Elisson • Talk 11:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Gotta forward this to the Swedish Army HQ as a suggestion for cipher code ;-) Strausszek October 1, 2006 07:40 (CEST)
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