Jan Arne Björklund (born 18 April 1962) is a Swedish Liberal politician.

[2] His father, Arne, worked in the textile industry; his mother, Ragna, came to Sweden from Norway as a war refugee in 1944.

[2] After he had completed upper secondary education (gymnasium) in 1982, Björklund enlisted in the Swedish Armed Forces, and earned the rank of officer in 1985.

[2] He then served in the royal Svea Life Guards in Stockholm, from which he retired as a major in 1994 to start a new career in politics.

[2] In the run-up to both the 2002 and 2006 general elections, Björklund was chairman of the centre-right Alliance for Sweden's working group on education policy.

[6] In January 2009, Björklund criticised the downsizing in recent years of the Swedish Armed Forces.

During an interview on an SVT news program, he stated: "After the last year's development in Russia, and the war in Georgia, Sweden must be able to mobilize more soldiers than we can today.