About the Author

Bengt Gustafsson, b. 1933

1959    Officer, The Engineer Regiment in Boden in North Sweden

1961    Second Lieutenant

1964-6 General Staff Course

1968    General Staff Officer, Army Staff and at Civil Defence Central Administration

1979    Lieutenant-Colonel and Battalion Commander, The Royal Älvsborg’s Infantry Regiment, South Sweden

1982    Colonel and Assistant Under-Secretary for Planning and Budget of the Ministry of Defence

1984    Lieutenant-General and Commanding General of Military Comm'd Upper Norrland, close to Finnish border

1986    General and Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces

1994    Retired