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113. Jorgensen, “Battle Group Gripens,” 44, 46.
114. Peter Liander, editor, Joint Armed Forces Magazine, to the author,
e-mail, 9 May 2005.
115. Liander, “On Alert,” 25.
116. Persson to the author, e-mail, 10 May 2005.
117. Karlsson, “History of Flygvapnet,” 132.
118. Brig Gen Göran Tode, SwAF, retired, to the author, e-mail, 7 June 2005.
119. Ibid.
120. Karlsson, “History of Flygvapnet,” 134.
121. Ibid., 134–35.
122. Ibid., 132.
123. Liander, “On Alert,” 22–23.
124. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, “EAPC Security Forum
2005—Media Advisory,” press release, 24 March 2005, accessed 30 September
2005, http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/5314/a/41398 (site discontinued).
125. Tode to the author, e-mail, 7 June 2005.
126. Liander, “On Alert,” 23.
127. Björs, interview.
128. Ibid.; and Tode to the author, e-mail, 14 June 2005.
129. United Nations, Operation Artemis, 13.
130. Adam Folcker, “Commanding Officer in Liberia,” Insats & Försvar,
English ed., no. 1 (2004): 52–53.
131. Göran Stütz, Opinion 2004 (Stockholm: Styrelsen för Psykologiskt
Försvar, 2004), 125.
132. Brig Gen C-G Fant, “Luftstridskrafterna i ett internationell perspektiv:
Referat från International Air Power Symposium,” in Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademiens
Handlingar och Tidskrift, no. 1 (Stockholm: The Royal Swedish
Academy of War Sciences, 2002), 51.
133. Defence Commission, Summary: Secure Neighbourhood, 13.
134. Jonas Hjelm (state secretary for defence, Sweden), telephone interview
by the author, 15 February 2006.
135. Brig Gen Åke Svedén, SwAF, commander, Air Transport Unit, 1983–90,
to the author, e-mail, 22 January 2006.
136. Capt Åsa Schön, SwAF, deputy chief of public affairs, Skaraborg Wing,
to the author, e-mail, 5 July 2005.
137. Svedén to the author, e-mail.
138. Lt Col Pepe Brolén, SwAF, retired (commander, Air Transport Unit,
1990–1998), telephone interview by the author, 2 November 2005.
139. Ibid.
140. Anders Hedgren, head, Public Affairs Department, Swedish armed
forces, to the author, e-mail, 8 April 2005.
141. Lt Col Lars-Eric Blad, SwAF, commander, Air Transport Unit, 1998–
2003, to the author, e-mail, 6 September 2005.
142. Brolén, interview.
143. Schön to the author, e-mail.