Sir, – Having long, if intermittent, experience of working with the Royal Swedish Navy (RSwN), I found Lt Ekholm’s article ‘Beyond the Baltic: Sweden’s emerging naval role in the North Atlantic’ [114/2, p. 267] very interesting, and offer the following subjective supplements to it. I consider the article has two aims: To acquaint Allied officers with the background to Swedish officers’ thinking To challenge the Swedish Armed Forces leadership to reconsider the education and training of maritime warfare officers. Regarding the first aim, many RN and USN officers found the Swedish pre-2024 polic…
