Talk:Chief of Defence (Sweden)

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Did you know... that no admiral has ever served as Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces?

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Also no admiral has ever served as Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish Armed Forces

On 11 October 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces to Chief of Defence (Sweden). The result of the discussion was moved.

Supreme Commander

The official website of the Swedisd Armed Forces (mil.se) has an english page [1] on Gen. Syrén, where he is presented as "General Håkan Syrén, Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces" or the "Supreme Commander" for short. This page (also mil.se) mentions him as "The Swedish Supreme Commander, General Håkan Syrén, [...]" and with an acronym as "[...] SC General Håkan Syrén.". Should we totally abandon the Commander-in-Chief-thing or just mention SC as an alternative title? /Storpilot 23:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From tree to four stars

it would be interesting to know when the rank increased by one star becomming a four-star general rank --Malin Randstrom (talk) 07:27, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to Swedish Wikipedia, Olof Thörnell was promoted from Lieutenant General (three stars) to General (four stars) on 1 January 1940, 24 days after his appointment as Supreme Commander, and since then all Supreme Commanders have been Generals. -- Jao (talk) 10:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the reply, however, I was asking when all general ranks were increased by one star. That is, when a Swedish Lieutenant General previously represented by two stars increased to three stars. Similarily, when a General previously represented by three stars increased to four stars. Thanks, --Malin Randstrom (talk) 10:40, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see what you're asking now. The 1952 uniform still had 1–3 stars, some time in the 1980s I know it was 2–4. Susning may be right that it happened some time during the 1970s, but at any rate the extra star predates the brigadier rank. -- Jao (talk) 14:25, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removing speculation on Prime Minister being Supreme Commander in peacetime

I removed this pragraph for the following reasaons;

1. I have found no source verifying that such a discussion has ever taken place. 2. Such a move would fall under the concept of "ministerstyre", which is a no-no. 3. The opscommander (C Insatsledningen) at Headquarters formally leads all operations (under the say-so of the SC) in Sweden in peacetime, from deploying a battalion to Afghanistan to having the Home Guard look for missing children (he does delegate the latter quite heavily). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hans Engstrom (talk • contribs) 02:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 11 October 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 00:45, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces → Chief of Defence (Sweden) – It seems that Sweden has adopted NATO terminology after becoming a member. See here for example: https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/en/about/organisation/chief-of-defence/ /Saftgurka (talk) 11:47, 11 October 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Raladic (talk) 22:00, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Sweden has been notified of this discussion. Raladic (talk) 22:01, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support the old term has been replaced across goverment homepages. Draken Bowser (talk) 22:13, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.