Finding well-trained individuals for the Armed Forces is not a problem at the moment. However, overall defense and Sweden’s endurance can be negatively affected by poorer public health among the population.
If basic community services stop working, a physically challenged person may have responders carry water, chop wood, or perform other heavy physical labor.
— I am very concerned about that. When we are to build up a defense capability in Sweden, we are not building it on gadgets, but people. If you are in poor condition, you also have poor resilience and what we see in Ukraine is that Russia is attacking civilian targets to try to break down the population so that they will give up, says Claes Ivgren, Brigadier General and the Armed Forces’ General Physician, to DN.