Late last year, they came out with a new comprehensive guide on preparedness:
https://www.suomi.fi/guides/preparedness
“Stop! Don’t touch me there. Cuz this is my No-No Square.”
Finns having fun.
Finland is sparsely populated, would be defending a long border, but also would be expected to fight on its own territory. That is the perfect prescription for having universal conscription with a large reserve Force, but very small mobile active duty forces.
But most of the rest of NATO does not share a border with Russia, So they need professional forces capable of deploying outside the country.
The other factor arguing against universal conscription, particularly for the United States, is that it doesn't really do much good to have all those conscripts if you're not going to have the equipment necessary to put them in the field. This isn't world War II. Military equipment was much simpler and could be produced much more rapidly back then. The sophisticated stuff with which our military currently is armed has much longer lead times for production. So we'd have a massive number of universal conscripts, but without the equipment necessary for them to contribute to the war effort.
well, I wouldnt trust my life with their “Plan”... after all... they have never been attacked.
And If I was a gambling man, I would bet a sum they’d pull a France...
I like the Sweden’s strategy. They were doing FAFO long before it entered the language.
That was proven during their peacekeeping in the Balkans,
Best defense? To cite a quote attributed to Yamamoto, but never verfied: “There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”
Have the Ruskies been threatening to invade their country or have been massing troops and hardware on their border recently?
The Finns shall inherit the earth.
Taiwan needs to learn some of these lessons if they want American help.