Finnish military officers have warned that outdated combat methods still dominate conscript training and that some of the tactics being taught would not work on a modern battlefield. Officers interviewed anonymously by Helsingin Sanomat argue that Finnish infantry and mechanised units remain too reliant on concentrating hundreds of soldiers for movement and attacks, formations that […]

More than 2,000 conscripts from a single Finnish intake fail to complete their military service, according to Ilta-Sanomat. The figure amounts to roughly one in six male conscripts, highlighting the substantial attrition in Finland’s supposedly universal conscription system. The dropout rate is not new: Finnish Defence Forces data previously showed that around 16% of conscripts […]