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This whole article is a joke. It is not the opinion of a single Icelandic citizen (except maybe those who wrote this article) that there is a military in Iceland.
There isn't a article about the "Military of Iceland" on the Icelandic wikiproject. Do you think that is a coincidence?
To back this up:
CIA - The World Factbook (
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ic.html)
Iceland has no standing military force; under a 1951 bilateral agreement - still valid - its defense was provided by the US-manned Icelandic Defense Force (IDF) headquartered at Keflavik; however, all US military forces in Iceland were withdrawn as of October 2006; although wartime defense of Iceland remains a NATO commitment, in April 2007, Iceland and Norway signed a bilateral agreement providing for Norwegian aerial surveillance and defense of Icelandic airspace (2008)
CIA - The World Factbook (
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ic.html)
Military expenditures:
0% of GDP (2005 est.)
Iceland.is (
http://www.iceland.is/iceland-abroad/nato/iceland-and-nato/)
Iceland has been a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) since its foundation in 1949. Membership of the Alliance and the Defence Agreement with the United States of America has been the two main pillars of Iceland's security policy. With the changing security environment and the transformation of NATO, the contribution of Iceland to the Alliance has undergone major change. While having no standing army, Iceland contributes to NATO operations with both financial contributions and civil personnel.
You should now have the sources to remove this article.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Þorkell Einarsson ( talk • contribs) 01:53, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Agnar Kofoed-Hansen the chief of police was a proponent of Nazism who recived training in policing in Germany in 1939 and is thought by some historians to have spied on the British occupation for the Germans. Strange that none of this is mentioned. He also founded the directorate of immigration to keep Iceland "aryan".
See discussion on Talk:Military of France. Anothername 14:32, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
FYI, IDF stands for "Iceland Defense Force", not "Icelandic Defense Force" as it's defined in this article. You can verify this by visiting their web page at http://www.nctskef.navy.mil/IDF/.
Perhaps a more appropriate title for this article would be Defence of Iceland, for the obvious reason that Iceland has no military. -- Bjarki 09:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Are these photos jokes? Single-man islandic submarines, supposedly...
http://forum.index.hu/Article/viewArticle?a=60435343&t=9010902
...withdrawn by the end of September 2006, drastically reducing U.S. presence at the Keflavík base. The last American troops left on September 30...
If the last troops left at the end of September, then its quite obviously a drastic reduction in their presence, this makes the first statement totally pointless. JonEastham 01:06, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Did the UK "invade" Iceland? I thought it was more like "move in to protect" it. I'm not suggesting that the woding be changed, but I always thought that the UK sent troops in 1940 to protect Iceland from a German invasion since Denmark had fallen. In any case, US troops took up positions there to relieve the British, didn't they?
I'm not completely sure, but since this article is related to the "Military of Iceland", it should probably only have a brief one to two paragraph summary of what it currently has. What is on the page right now should be moved to a more relevant and convenient location, such as "Military History of Iceland". I'm asking people's opinion on this one before I or anyone else makes a major edit on this page.
Thanks. Weatherguy1033 04:41, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
A quite wide reaching defence agreement between Iceland and Norway will be signed in Oslo on Thursday ( [1] [2]). Perhaps one of the regular contributors here could work this into the article? -- Nidator 12:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
As this article ( [4]) shows there is an arrangement between Iceland and Norway so that Icelanders can, and do, serve in the Norwegian Defence Forces. Is that relevant and should it be included in the article? -- Nidator 18:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
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The template gives the following as service branches of the "Military of Iceland": Iceland Crisis Response Unit, Icelandic National Police, Icelandic Coast Guard, Iceland Air Defence System, Vikingasveitin.
OK, so first, nowhere in the world are national police forces considered military forces. Or to put it another way, countries where military forces are police forces are usually always dictatorships. The fact is that (a) Iceland has no military: No army, no navy, and no air force. (b) Its police forces are civilian institutions and are not "branches" of a military. And that includes Vikingasveitin, which is a non-military special police force under the command of a civilian police. (c) The Coast Guard is also a non-military institution, whose task it is (according to its website) to police Icelandic waters and serve as a search and rescue force in Icelandic waters. (d) the Iceland Crisis Response Unit is a peace keeping unit. And (e) Iceland Air Defence System is a surveilance agency only. -- Cessator ( talk) 00:20, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
This whole article is a joke. It is not the opinion of a single Icelandic citizen (except maybe those who wrote this article) that there is a military in Iceland.
There isn't a article about the "Military of Iceland" on the Icelandic wikiproject. Do you think that is a coincidence?
This article should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Þorkell Einarsson ( talk • contribs) 01:50, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Iceland had a defence force until 2007. It still has military elements, though they are somewhat fragmented and even disguised. Royalcourtier ( talk) 05:41, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
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Military of Iceland → Defence forces of Iceland – Per the discussion in the short-lived AfD, Iceland officially has no "military", but it clearly has a defensive structure in place. BD2412 T 07:51, 6 December 2021 (UTC)— Relisting. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 05:40, 15 December 2021 (UTC) — Relisting. BD2412 T 00:05, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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This whole article is a joke. It is not the opinion of a single Icelandic citizen (except maybe those who wrote this article) that there is a military in Iceland.
There isn't a article about the "Military of Iceland" on the Icelandic wikiproject. Do you think that is a coincidence?
To back this up:
CIA - The World Factbook (
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ic.html)
Iceland has no standing military force; under a 1951 bilateral agreement - still valid - its defense was provided by the US-manned Icelandic Defense Force (IDF) headquartered at Keflavik; however, all US military forces in Iceland were withdrawn as of October 2006; although wartime defense of Iceland remains a NATO commitment, in April 2007, Iceland and Norway signed a bilateral agreement providing for Norwegian aerial surveillance and defense of Icelandic airspace (2008)
CIA - The World Factbook (
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ic.html)
Military expenditures:
0% of GDP (2005 est.)
Iceland.is (
http://www.iceland.is/iceland-abroad/nato/iceland-and-nato/)
Iceland has been a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) since its foundation in 1949. Membership of the Alliance and the Defence Agreement with the United States of America has been the two main pillars of Iceland's security policy. With the changing security environment and the transformation of NATO, the contribution of Iceland to the Alliance has undergone major change. While having no standing army, Iceland contributes to NATO operations with both financial contributions and civil personnel.
You should now have the sources to remove this article.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Þorkell Einarsson ( talk • contribs) 01:53, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Agnar Kofoed-Hansen the chief of police was a proponent of Nazism who recived training in policing in Germany in 1939 and is thought by some historians to have spied on the British occupation for the Germans. Strange that none of this is mentioned. He also founded the directorate of immigration to keep Iceland "aryan".
See discussion on Talk:Military of France. Anothername 14:32, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
FYI, IDF stands for "Iceland Defense Force", not "Icelandic Defense Force" as it's defined in this article. You can verify this by visiting their web page at http://www.nctskef.navy.mil/IDF/.
Perhaps a more appropriate title for this article would be Defence of Iceland, for the obvious reason that Iceland has no military. -- Bjarki 09:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Are these photos jokes? Single-man islandic submarines, supposedly...
http://forum.index.hu/Article/viewArticle?a=60435343&t=9010902
...withdrawn by the end of September 2006, drastically reducing U.S. presence at the Keflavík base. The last American troops left on September 30...
If the last troops left at the end of September, then its quite obviously a drastic reduction in their presence, this makes the first statement totally pointless. JonEastham 01:06, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Did the UK "invade" Iceland? I thought it was more like "move in to protect" it. I'm not suggesting that the woding be changed, but I always thought that the UK sent troops in 1940 to protect Iceland from a German invasion since Denmark had fallen. In any case, US troops took up positions there to relieve the British, didn't they?
I'm not completely sure, but since this article is related to the "Military of Iceland", it should probably only have a brief one to two paragraph summary of what it currently has. What is on the page right now should be moved to a more relevant and convenient location, such as "Military History of Iceland". I'm asking people's opinion on this one before I or anyone else makes a major edit on this page.
Thanks. Weatherguy1033 04:41, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
A quite wide reaching defence agreement between Iceland and Norway will be signed in Oslo on Thursday ( [1] [2]). Perhaps one of the regular contributors here could work this into the article? -- Nidator 12:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
As this article ( [4]) shows there is an arrangement between Iceland and Norway so that Icelanders can, and do, serve in the Norwegian Defence Forces. Is that relevant and should it be included in the article? -- Nidator 18:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
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OK, so first, nowhere in the world are national police forces considered military forces. Or to put it another way, countries where military forces are police forces are usually always dictatorships. The fact is that (a) Iceland has no military: No army, no navy, and no air force. (b) Its police forces are civilian institutions and are not "branches" of a military. And that includes Vikingasveitin, which is a non-military special police force under the command of a civilian police. (c) The Coast Guard is also a non-military institution, whose task it is (according to its website) to police Icelandic waters and serve as a search and rescue force in Icelandic waters. (d) the Iceland Crisis Response Unit is a peace keeping unit. And (e) Iceland Air Defence System is a surveilance agency only. -- Cessator ( talk) 00:20, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
This whole article is a joke. It is not the opinion of a single Icelandic citizen (except maybe those who wrote this article) that there is a military in Iceland.
There isn't a article about the "Military of Iceland" on the Icelandic wikiproject. Do you think that is a coincidence?
This article should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Þorkell Einarsson ( talk • contribs) 01:50, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Iceland had a defence force until 2007. It still has military elements, though they are somewhat fragmented and even disguised. Royalcourtier ( talk) 05:41, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: No consensus - No !votes in favour, but plenty of comments in different directions regarding the renaming. No sense in a relist given the lack of any movement since the last one. ( non-admin closure) FOARP ( talk) 15:58, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Military of Iceland → Defence forces of Iceland – Per the discussion in the short-lived AfD, Iceland officially has no "military", but it clearly has a defensive structure in place. BD2412 T 07:51, 6 December 2021 (UTC)— Relisting. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 05:40, 15 December 2021 (UTC) — Relisting. BD2412 T 00:05, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Nathanielcwm ( talk) 12:59, 6 December 2021 (UTC):
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