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Norway needs more soldiers to defend the country. It doesn’t go according to plan.

Defense chief Eirik Kristoffersen is far from the Storting’s goal and demand to save NOK 2.3 billion by 2024.

(Aftenposten) The defense chief must cut NOK 2.3 billion to the bureaucracy and commanders to be able to afford more soldiers. He is going so badly that the situation is called serious.

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It was not to be misunderstood the signal of the highest levels of the Armed Forces of a year ago:

– We need to streamline our bureaucracy, defense chief Eirik Kristoffersen told Aftenposten.

Instead, he needed to spend money on more soldiers.

But he took it too hard. Now it turns out that the savings plan is miles away from success. He is described as serious, writes Aftenposten.

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