Sweden deploys troops over underwater threat
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Sweden deploys troops over underwater threat
Published: 17 Oct 2014 17:44 GMT+02:00
Updated: 18 Oct 2014 09:30 GMT+02:00
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UPDATED: Sweden's military has deployed planes and ships in the Stockholm Archipelago against what it says is a foreign threat in the waters, with the size of the operation unchanged overnight.
Ring was however also keen to avoid connecting the incident to Russia, saying
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too little was known for now to allow an in-depth analysis. In recent months, Sweden has seen an uptick in Baltic Sea manoeuvres by the Russian air force -- including an incident in September when two SU24 fighter-bombers allegedly entered Swedish airspace in what then Foreign Minister Carl Bildt called "the most serious aerial incursion by the Russians" in almost a decade.
Sweden lodged a formal protest after the alleged incursion.
"As the government has said, the situation has deteriorated in the Baltic Sea," Wikstrm said on Friday.
Russian submarine activity around Sweden became a major cause of concern during the Cold War. The most famous of these was the submarine U137 which ran aground in a secret Swedish submarine lane in Blekinge, southern Sweden, in 1981, causing a major diplomatic crisis.
http://www.thelocal.se/20141017/swed...-off-stockholm
It seems that Gordon McCormick, author of famous COIN formula "Magic diamond", has studied Swedish problem in 1990.
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"Stranger Than Fiction. Soviet Submarine Operations in Swedish Waters"
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand...2007/R3776.pdf
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