Until the Defence Act of 1958, the Swedish Armed Forces had been steadily improving in quality and in numbers.
A policy of gradual disarmament commenced as a result of the Defence Act of 1968,[1] thus lowering the yearly conscripted manpower pool of 50,000 men and women to today's 5,000.
The evaluation time was increased by 6 months, due to the poor handling of the Defence Inquiry of 1987.
The 2004 act also decided that the military was to establish the Nordic Battlegroup, consisting of troops from Estonia, Finland and Norway (and later, the Republic of Ireland was included).
As of the Defence Act of 2009, conscription was suspended during times of peace and was replaced from 2011 by volunteer military training.