Lieutenant General Bo Lars Axel Westin (12 September 1913 – 17 January 2009) was a Swedish Coastal Artillery officer.

[3] Westin enrolled at the Royal Swedish Naval Academy where he graduated as second lieutenant in Karlskrona Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA 2) in 1937.

He was then promoted to colonel in 1961 and was also appointed chief of Section II (Attaché, Intelligence and Domestic Department) in the Defence Staff.

[2][3] Westin was an intellectual officer with great analytical ability, and he went on to become influential when it came to transforming the old coastal artillery to modern systems.

Westin was appointed chairman of a comprehensive composite investigation, and after two years, he succeeded in presenting a completely unanimous proposal.

Westin was a board member of the National Society for Road Safety (NTF)[8] and Statens allmänna bevakning AB.

He was a consultant in Svenskt visarkiv 1980-1993 and wrote books about, among others, Thore Ehrling, Stig Holm, Skånska Lasse, Benny Goodman and Gösta Törner.