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The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (Swedish: Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademien) is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden and was founded on 12 November 1796 by Gustaf Wilhelm af Tibell. The academy is an independent organization and a forum for military (army and air force) and defense studies as well as national security issues. Membership is limited to 160 chairs under the age of 62.

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Swedish language

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countries overall.

Swedish Royal Academies

Swedish Royal Academies

The Royal Academies are independent organizations, founded on Royal command, that act to promote the arts, culture, and science in Sweden. The Swedish Academy and Academy of Sciences are also responsible for the selection of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature, Physics, Chemistry, and the Prize in Economic Sciences. Also included in the Royal Academies are scientific societies that were granted Royal Charters.

Sweden

Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge–tunnel across the Öresund. At 447,425 square kilometres (172,752 sq mi), Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of 25.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (66/sq mi), with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area, in the central and southern half of the country.

National security

National security

National security, or national defence, is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government. Originally conceived as protection against military attack, national security is widely understood to include also non-military dimensions, including the security from terrorism, minimization of crime, economic security, energy security, environmental security, food security, and cyber-security. Similarly, national security risks include, in addition to the actions of other nation states, action by violent non-state actors, by narcotic cartels, and by multinational corporations, and also the effects of natural disasters.

Presidents

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Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand

Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand

Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand was a Swedish count, lord of the realm, general, statesman and minister from the Skjöldebrand dynasty. He was also a knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim and a holder of seat 18 of the Swedish Academy.

Gustaf Uggla

Gustaf Uggla

General Gustaf Fredrik Oskar Uggla was a senior Swedish Army officer. Uggla's senior commands include commanding officer of the Military Academy Karlberg, executive officer of Svea Life Guards and commander of the 2nd Army Division. He also served as Chief of His Majesty's Military Staff from 1910 to 1924.

Bror Munck (Swedish general)

Bror Munck (Swedish general)

Lieutenant General Friherre Bror Oliver Claes Munck af Fulkila was a Swedish Army officer. Munck served as commanding officer of the Crown Prince's Hussar Regiment, the Life Guards of Horse, as the Inspector of the Cavalry and as commanding officer of the 3rd Army Division. He is also known as the organizer and head of the so-called Munckska kåren, a secret right-wing paramilitary group.

Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld

Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld

General Carl Gustaf Valdemar Hammarskjöld was a Swedish Army officer and conservative politician.

Erik Testrup

Erik Testrup

Lieutenant General Erik Mathias Hjalmar Gustafsson Testrup was a Swedish Army officer. His senior commands include commanding officer of the Eastern Army Division of the IV Army Division, Commandant General of Stockholm Garrison and as military commander of the IV Military District.

Archibald Douglas (1883–1960)

Archibald Douglas (1883–1960)

Lieutenant General Count Wilhelm Archibald Douglas was a Swedish Army officer and nobleman who served as Chief of the Army from 1944 to 1948.

Bengt Nordenskiöld

Bengt Nordenskiöld

General Bengt Gustafsson (G:son) Nordenskiöld was a Swedish Air Force officer who served as Chief of the Air Force from 1942 to 1954. In 1910 Nordenskiöld started his military career as a volunteer in the Svea Life Guards, later attending the Royal Swedish Army Staff College. In 1928, he was made a captain in the General Staff. During 1931 he went through aircraft recognition training at the Swedish Air Force Flying School, after which he was trained as a pilot. In 1936, Nordenskiöld started to serve in the recently created Air Staff under general Torsten Friis, later becoming a lieutenant general. He was appointed Chief of the Swedish Air Force in 1942 as the first Chief of Air Force with pilot training. Nordenskiöld was promoted general and retired from active service in 1954.

Helge Strömbäck

Helge Strömbäck

Vice Admiral Helge Hjalmar Immanuel Strömbäck was a Swedish Navy officer. He was the Chief of the Naval Staff from 1942 to 1945 and the Chief of the Navy from 1945 to 1953.

Birger Hedqvist

Birger Hedqvist

Lieutenant General Karl Birger Hedqvist was a Swedish Army officer. He served as Deputy Chief of Ordnance from 1939 to 1949 and as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1949 to 1959.

Axel Ljungdahl

Axel Ljungdahl

General Axel Georg Ljungdahl was a Swedish Air Force officer. He was Chief of the Air Force from 1954 to 1960.

Erik Samuelson

Erik Samuelson

Vice Admiral Johan Erik Samuelson was a senior Swedish Navy officer. Samuelson's senior postings includes as flag captain (1943–1945), as Chief of the Coastal Fleet (1946–1950), and Commanding Admiral of the Naval Command South (1950–1958).

Bert Carpelan

Bert Carpelan

Lieutenant General Ivar Bert Tyko Carpelan was a Swedish Army officer. Carpelan's senior commands include Chief of the Army Staff and the General Staff Corps, commanding officer of the IV Military District and Commandant General in Stockholm.

Notable members

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Karl Amundson

Karl Amundson

Major General Karl Albert Byron Amundson (KABA) was a Swedish Air Force officer, ballooner and military attaché. He was the first Swedish Chief of the Air Force (1926–31).

Magnus Ranstorp

Magnus Ranstorp

Per Magnus Ranstorp is a Swedish scholar who has written about Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda and other militant Islamic movements. He is the Research Director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College, directing a project on Strategic Terrorist Threats to Europe which focuses on radicalisation and recruitment of salafist-jihadist terrorists across Europe and the convergence between Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear Weapons, and Terrorism. Ranstorp graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota in 1985.

Mertil Melin

Mertil Melin

Lieutenant General Mertil Börje Melin is a retired Swedish Army officer. Melin started his military career as a ranger at Norrland's Dragoons in Umeå and after several position and courses he became Chief of Army Command (1996–1998) and military commander of the Northern Military District (1998–2000) in Boden. After some time at the European Union Military Committee in Brussels he finished his career as the Crown Equerry of the Royal Court of Sweden.

Michael Moore (Swedish officer)

Michael Moore (Swedish officer)

Major General Michael Moore is a Swedish Air Force officer, with an air combat control background, who has been a senior military adviser at the Swedish Ministry of Defence.

Frederik Due

Frederik Due

Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due was a Norwegian military officer and statesman. Born in Trondheim, he entered the military at an early age, and took part in the Swedish-Norwegian War of 1814. After the two countries entered into union, Due was recruited to the Swedish court, where he was appointed Norwegian state secretary in Stockholm in 1823. In 1841 he became the Norwegian prime minister, and acted as interpreter for Charles XIV John. After resigning in 1858, he spent the years until 1871 as an ambassador to Vienna and Munich.

Anders Tegnell

Anders Tegnell

Nils Anders Tegnell is a Swedish civil servant and physician specialising in infectious disease. From 2013 until his resignation in March 2022 he was Sweden's state epidemiologist.

Source: "Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, August 3rd), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_War_Sciences.

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