Later the same year, the government announced proposals for far-reaching cutbacks in Sweden's military spending.

In 1983 the NCO corps, since 1972 called the Platoon Officer Corps, was disbanded and its members were given commissions as officers in ranks of Second or First Lieutenant in Sweden's new one-tier military leadership system.

As a result of his many years of professional experience he was greatly valued by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and was often assigned the most critical tasks, such as the defence of Neubrandenburg in 1631 ( where he was captured by the forces of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly ) and command of the Sweden's most important military supply base in central Germany at Nuremberg in 1632.

He finally was transferred to where he belonged, to Sweden's military intelligence.

Through the defector, Hamilton and his superiors found out that the Soviet Union had three secret underwater bases for special operations, set to target Sweden's highest political and military leaderships in case of a war.

In the " Statsrådsdiktamen " on 19 February 1940, Sweden's king Gustaf V publicly rejected pleas from Finland's government for military intervention in the Winter War to help defend Finland against the Soviet invasion.

The reliance on foreign mercenaries in the army was reduced in favour of soldiers of Swedish extraction ( many of which were recruited in Småland ) and this laid the foundation for Sweden's military successes in later wars.

Carl von Clausewitz, in his military treatise On War, even mentioned Sweden's good conditions for this kind of war of attrition:

However, Sweden's military and government have been involved in major peacekeeping actions and other military support functions around the world.

As a result of the 2010 U. S. diplomatic cables leak, it was learned that the United States government has described Sweden's " official security policy " as " non-participation in military alliances during peacetime and neutrality during wartime.

A serious cabinet crisis in Stockholm put an end to his mission in Norway: The failure of Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler's policy, that had been characterized by high-profile diplomatic support for Finland without sufficient agreement from other Social Democratic Ministers for concrete military actions outside of Sweden's borders, was starkly illuminated by the run up to, and outbreak of, the Winter War.

In his books, and also in accounts by other authors, Hägglöf appears as an outspoken critic of the idealist policies of Foreign Minister Sandler and Activist advocates for Sweden's military engagement for the defence of Finland after the Soviet attacks in 1939 ( the Winter War ) and 1941 ( the Continuation War ).

The greatest influence on the modern court-martial comes from the Court of Chivalry in England and the military code of Sweden's King Gustavus Adolphus.

The modern use of the term Scandinavia rises from the Scandinavist political movement, which was active in the middle of the 19th century, chiefly between the First war of Schleswig ( 1848 – 1850 ), in which Sweden and Norway contributed with considerable military force, and the Second war of Schleswig ( 1864 ) when Sweden's parliament denounced the king's promises of military support for Denmark.

Livregementets husarer, Kavalleri 3 ( K. 3 ) ( Life Guard Regiment Hussars, 3rd Cavalry ) is one of Sweden's oldest military units originating from cavalry recruited from Uppland, Södermanland, Västmanland, Närke and Värmland.

De la Gardie's skills combined with the fact that Sweden's enemy Russia had to transfer troops to defend against Polish attacks further south led to considerable military success for Sweden during the following years.

It is responsible for Sweden's military intelligence such as acquiring and presenting information that is of military importance regarding foreign powers and managing the security for vital divisions and agencies of the Swedish Armed Forces.

* November – Battle of Jüterbog: Sweden's forces defeat those of the Holy Roman Empire.

As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.

Sweden's conservative party, the Moderate Party, was formed in 1904, two years after the founding of the liberal party.

In 2001 Finland's outsourced proportion of spending was below Sweden's and above most other Western European countries.

According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the Academy Awards, though it was eventually not chosen as a nominee: the Hollywood industry magazine Variety refused to run an advertisement for a film with that title, and thus American distributor Strand Releasing asked for a new title to be chosen.

The Nordic union was in a way formalized on June 17, 1397 by the Treaty of Kalmar, signed in the Swedish castle of Kalmar, on Sweden's south-east coast, in medieval times close to the Danish border.

Lund University library was established in 1666 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest.

Queen Christina of Sweden's tendency to dress as a man was well known during her time, and excused because of her noble birth ; she was brought up as a male and there was speculation at the time that she was a hermaphrodite.

There was some excuse for her ; she had lost three babies and still felt herself an isolated foreigner in a hostile land, even more so after 1627 when her brother joined Sweden's enemies.

It was founded in 1963 due to Sweden's social welfare politics.

" Robyn entered Sweden's pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 1997, as co-writer and producer of the song " Du gör mig hel igen ," which was performed by Cajsalisa Ejemyr.

KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest ( the largest by certain definitions ) institutions of higher education in technology.

The reactor hall remains an amusement to many as once it was next door to what used to be Sweden's first nuclear reactor.

In 2009, KTH was the only institution among all Sweden's universities to be awarded " Centre of Excellent Quality in Higher Education "( in Computer Science ).

While some argued that it went against Sweden's historic policy of neutrality, where Sweden had not joined during the Cold War because it was seen as incompatible with neutrality, others viewed the move as a natural extension of the economic cooperation that had been going on since 1972 with the EU.

During the 1960s he was one of Sweden's most prolific songwriters, producing more than 3, 000 published titles.

Sweden's largest printed encyclopedia of all times, the 2nd edition of Nordisk familjebok was started in 1904 and used the old spelling through all 38 volumes until 1926.

In 1960, it was granted university status, becoming Sweden's fourth state university.

The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders.

Their vision was to build cars that could withstand the rigors of Sweden's rough roads and cold temperatures.

Sweden's row of three successive Championships was broken in Slovenia in 2004, when Germany won despite not being touted as a medal candidate by news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur.

including the Pacific Research Institute, which has released a documentary called Not As Good As You Think: Myth of the Middle Class Schools, a movie depicting positive benefits for middle class schools resulting from Sweden's voucher programs.

However, Per Thulberg, director general of the Swedish National Agency for Education, has said that the system " has not led to better results " and in the 2000s Sweden's ranking in the PISA league tables worsened.

Sweden's Bjorn Wirdheim won the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship for Drivers

Sweden's counties are mainly administrative units, used for inhabitant figures, politics, etc.

A second football team, IFK Malmö played in Sweden's top flight for about 20 years and the club's quarterfinal in the European Cup is the club's greatest achievement in its history.

In 1630 Gustavus Adolphus concluded that Habsburg designs for Baltic supremacy threatened Sweden's very existence and also its religious freedom.

The term " Reichstag " also remains in use in the German language as the term for the parliaments of some foreign monarchies, such as Sweden's Riksdag and Japan's pre-war Imperial Diet.

His love of Sweden led Appleton to leave Dartmouth College in 1976-1977 and become the director of Elektronmusikstudion, Sweden's national center for electronic music.

Then in 1960 came arguably the first rallying superstar ( and one of the first to be paid to rally full time ), Sweden's Erik Carlsson, driving for Saab.

He has served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006.

It initiated the negotiations for Sweden's accession to the European Union ( though the work to prepare the ground, at home and versus the EEC / EU, had already started during the final year of the Social Democratic government.

He was the first Magnus to rule Sweden for any length of time, not generally regarded as a usurper or a pretender ( but third Magnus to have been proclaimed Sweden's king and ruled there ).

In a December 2011 interview for Channel 1 with Sweden's public service broadcaster Sveriges Television, Silvia called media's handling of the information about her father " character assassination ".

Planning of the Lillehamer bid started in 1981, following Falun, Sweden's failed bid for the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Peter the Great would opt for Samson, springing the jaws of Sweden's heraldic lion.

As Griffenfeldt predicted, Sweden's stronger ally France was the party that dictated the peace with Denmark's ally Holland, and in spite of Danish victory at sea in the battles against Sweden in 1675 – 1679 during the Scanian War, Danish hopes for border changes on the Scandinavian Peninsula between the two countries were dashed.

BESK ( Binär Elektronisk SekvensKalkylator, Swedish for " Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator ") was Sweden's first electronic computer, using vacuum tubes instead of relays.