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Conclusions from the Finland’s Point of View · 57 It is decisively important that the units mobilized are not eliminated with a few well-targeted strikes, and that they would be capable of fighting territorially dispersed after having survived the first blows. Sufficient endurance is needed and also for buying time to allow for counteractions of friends and allies even after surprise precision strikes. The Finnish defence community and the FDF contingency planning have to consider the significance of nearby foreign forces in a high state of permanent readiness. Sufficient reserves must be available in order to compensate for initial losses during the mobilization phase and those caused by enemy strikes as well as for personnel rejected due to deteriorated combat capability or for other reasons. If the trained reserve is only equal to the nominal mobilization strength, the precondition for the entire defence capability is rapidly put into question. A significant part of the reserve will be tied up with different kinds of guarding, protection and auxiliary support duties. The need is already great during the pressuring and threatening phase of the crisis. The call-up and training of the whole annual contingents is necessary in order to satisfy the quantitative demands for reserve units. For example, at the end of the Cold War, there were in Sweden 8 000 sites or locations considered vital for the national defence to be guarded. 211 One can assume that in Finland, there would be thousands of corresponding locations. The Finnish territorial defence is largely based on the requisition of vehicles and tools from the civilian community in order to fill the needs for mobilized reserve territorial units. There are available at low cost in our country enough all-terrain, four-wheel drive vehicles, snow mobiles, ‘monkeys’ and other vehicles. Enemy operations would extend deeply into our territory from the very start with no single, clearly defined front line, and the need for defending units in the vast Finnish territory will be great. An aggressor would have to be met with determined resistance from the very onset of hostilities at important locations anywhere in the country. The crucial question is how to allocate resources between increasingly expensive state-of-the-art army units and the indispensable local defence system which covers the whole country. A certain modern spearhead is needed to defeat the aggressor. Yet it is questionable how much a possible invader is deterred by a Finnish qualitative military high-tech capability if the quantitative dimension of it is miniscule. 211 Agrell, 2010, p. 44.
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