The purpose of the total defense exercise, which is ongoing during 2020, is to strengthen Sweden's resilience due to the deteriorating external environment with increased military activities in the immediate area as well as attacks on networks and websites.

The County Administrative Board is the highest civil defense authority in the county. And in the event of an armed attack, the county administrative board's role is to coordinate the work and to support municipalities and regions in their work on civil defense.

Vulnerable to armed attack

There are some challenges for Sörmland. Some vulnerabilities and problems that have been identified in recent years are, for example, the power outage on Nyköping's laser and the material crisis in the hospitals, and then everything happened under peaceful conditions.

Thorbjörn Ohlsson, local exercise leader for Sörmland.

"This vulnerability increases significantly if we get an armed attack," says Thorbjörn Ohlsson, local exercise leader for Sörmland, at the county administrative board in Sörmland.

Hear exercise leader Thorbjörn Ohlsson in the video.