{"id":52976,"date":"2018-06-16T02:55:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T09:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=52976"},"modified":"2018-06-16T02:55:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T09:55:42","slug":"sweden-mobilizes-home-guard-for-first-time-since-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=52976","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Mobilizes Home Guard for First Time Since 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20180606\/sweden-mobilises-entire-home-guard-for-first-time-since-1975\">The Local<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Sweden\u2019s 22,000 volunteer soldiers were on Tuesday evening grabbing their guns and uniform, cancelling social engagements, and rushing to their stations, as the Swedish Armed Forces launched its biggest surprise exercise since 1975.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea behind this exercise is that we are now strengthening our military defence of the country,\u201d Sweden\u2019s Supreme Commander Micael Byd\u00e9n told Sweden\u2019s state broadcaster SVT. \u201cIts part of my duty to ensure that we boost our operative capabilities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, all 40 Home Guard battalions have been mobilised for the exercise, which means Swedes will see them carrying out duties and patrolling at airports, ports and on the streets throughout Wednesday&#8217;s National Day holiday. <\/p>\n<p>The exercise is part of Sweden\u2019s national effort to rebuild its Cold War Total Defence strategy in response to an increasingly belligerent Russia. The last time Sweden\u2019s Armed Forces called up the entire Home Guard at once was in 1975 at the height of the Cold War. <\/p>\n<p>Just a week ago Sweden\u2019s Civil Contingencies Agency sent out its \u201cIf Crisis or War Comes\u201d brochure to more than four million Swedish households, advising them to stock up on water, tinned and dry food, and other essentials to increase Sweden\u2019s resilience.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: The Local: Sweden\u2019s 22,000 volunteer soldiers were on Tuesday evening grabbing their guns and uniform, cancelling social engagements, and rushing to their stations, as the Swedish Armed Forces launched its biggest surprise exercise since 1975. \u201cThe idea behind this exercise is that we are now strengthening our military defence of the country,\u201d Sweden\u2019s Supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse","category-social-engineering","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52977,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52976\/revisions\/52977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}