Danish Defence Agreement 2013–2017

The Danish Defence Agreement 2013–2017 (Danish: Forsvarsforlig 2013-2017) is the white paper for the military of Denmark in the period of 2013 to 2017. The agreement was signed 30 November 2012 by the government and Venstre, Dansk Folkeparti, Liberal Alliance and Det Konservative Folkeparti.

Danish Defence Agreement 2013-2017
TypeDefence Agreement
Signed30 November 2012 (2012-11-30)
Expiration28 January 2018 (2018-01-28)
Parties
LanguageDanish

It calls for a significant reconstruction of the entire Danish military. It was replaced by the 2018–2023 Defence Agreement.

Highlights

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Army

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  • The Army should have the capacity to send a battalion on a short or long term deployment.
  • The six battalions are restructured into three bigger ones.
  • One battalion is on high readiness alert, with the ability to be shipped with short notice.
  • Restructuring of military academic centers into:
    • Army International Center (Hærens Internationale Center)
    • Army Combat Center (Hærens Kampcenter)
    • Army Combat Support Center (Hærens Kampstøttecenter)
    • Army Support Center (Hærens Støttecenter)
    • Army Special Center (Hærens Specialcenter)

After the agreement was reached there were changes to the structure of the centers. Parts of the Army Combat Center was moved to the Army Combat Support Center, which was in turn renamed Army Combat and Fire Support Center. Furthermore, Army Support Center and Army Special Center were merged to create Army Intelligence Center.[1]

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  • The Navy should have the capacity to send two units on a short term, short notice mission, or one big unit for a long term mission.
  • Collecting the Navy's Special School and the Navy's NCO School under one school.

Arctic

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Airforce

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Joint Service

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  • An organizational collection of all officer academies.
  • A collection of all military police.
  • Collecting all of Intelligence Services under one headquarter.
  • The creation of [clarification needed]
  • Restructuring the command structure:

Disbanding:

Creating:

  • Joint Defence Command (Værnsfælles Forsvarskommando)
    • Operations Staff (Operationsstaben)
    • Coordination and Development Staff (Koordinations- og Udviklingsstaben)
    • Army Staff (Hærstaben)
    • Naval Staff (Marinestaben)
    • Air Staff (Flyverstaben)
    • Special Operations Command (Specialoperationskommandoen)

References

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  1. ^ "Two army centers to Varde Municipality". artilleriet.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 20 March 2016.
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Preceded by Danish Defence Agreement
2013 – 2017
Succeeded by