I’m guessing that the Defense Metric they’re using is an Arbitrarily chosen one.
Iceland has no standing Army. Or well technically there’s the “Crisis Response Unit” which has never numbered over 200 men. And is drawn from both local Police and the Coastguard. Only 30 of which are ever actually on “Active” duty. And it is mainly for photo ops.
They have a Coast Guard of 4 ships. And 4 Aircraft. Only one of which is a fixed wing aircraft.
The Icelandic Coast Guard also operates a series of several Radar Arrays that they ‘inherited’ from a U.S Cold War facility that closed. And itself is barely over 200 men.
Meanwhile the Finnish Military meanwhile is around 24,000 Active Duty. With over 800,000 available Reservists. With an additional 50,000 paramilitary personnel that can be folded into the Regular Forces. And that’s without conscription.
What website are you using as a source Op? I’m interested in their logic for the decision for the ranking. When conventional logic would dictate the opposite
I’m guessing that the Defense Metric they’re using is an Arbitrarily chosen one.
Iceland has no standing Army. Or well technically there’s the “Crisis Response Unit” which has never numbered over 200 men. And is drawn from both local Police and the Coastguard. Only 30 of which are ever actually on “Active” duty. And it is mainly for photo ops.
They have a Coast Guard of 4 ships. And 4 Aircraft. Only one of which is a fixed wing aircraft.
The Icelandic Coast Guard also operates a series of several Radar Arrays that they ‘inherited’ from a U.S Cold War facility that closed. And itself is barely over 200 men.
Meanwhile the Finnish Military meanwhile is around 24,000 Active Duty. With over 800,000 available Reservists. With an additional 50,000 paramilitary personnel that can be folded into the Regular Forces. And that’s without conscription.
What website are you using as a source Op? I’m interested in their logic for the decision for the ranking. When conventional logic would dictate the opposite