The present Swedish government recently did a review of the military. The criticism was, more or less, that it was like the British navy before WW I, where officers were promoted based on how clean they kept their ships.

(Lots of money go into the army and lots of equipment is bought -- and these days have almost no units ready. There is talk about changing this a bit.)

I'm not going to claim that Swedish politicians are supernaturally prescient or anything, but... the last time the Swedish military was closed down since it obviously would never be needed, was in the 1920s. I'd better move west. :-)