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Old 12-11-2020, 11:15 PM
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Can anyone confirm that NATO and Sweden had performed joint planning assuming Sweden's role as a NATO ally? I've heard this was done at least informally with plans for NATO to use road network air bases to forward deploy Harriers, F-16s, F-111s, or Tornados. Supposedly, there were specific air units identified to base in Sweden in the late 80s.
The Chicago Tribune reported in 1994 on a paper published by the Swedish government about Sweden's sharing defense plans with Britain starting in 1949, with the understanding that Britain would share them with NATO, with increasing entanglements up to the end of the report period in 1969.
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