The Defense Committee has now released its final report Strengthened Defense Capability - Sweden as an Ally. The defense decision spans five years and defense expenditures are to be increased to the equivalent of 2.6 percent of GDP, according to NATO's calculation model.

The reactions to the final report have been numerous.

Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M), Minister for Civil Defense, notes that the allocations for civil defense represent "the largest increase in ambition for the civil part of total defense since the fall of the Soviet Union." He also extends "a big thank you to the entire Defense Committee for the material they have now delivered for the upcoming defense decision."

Pål Jonson (M), Minister of Defense, welcomes the committee's proposal to raise it to 2.6 percent of GDP (according to NATO's calculation model). The report will be a central part of the government's continued work ahead of the Defense Decision 2025-2030, but he concludes that the government is open to making adjustments if the security situation requires it and when NATO's capability requirements are set next year.

Ammanda Wollstad, editor-in-chief at Svensk Tidskrift and vice chairman of the Atlantic Committee, is disappointed with the announcement: "Not enough, not fast enough, especially not enough to resolve the debts left by previous defense decisions - for decades."

Oscar Jonsson, researcher at FHS, thinks among other things that the overall quality of the final report is very good, highlighting that the report is filled with plain language and increased ambition. However, he is concerned about "the potential gap between rhetoric and practice," where the large and expensive systems to be ordered "consume the budget so the glue that holds everything together is not sufficient."

Johan Wiktorin, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and CEO of INTIL Group, writes that the final report "turned out slightly better than expected, but not at all sufficient in relation to the situation." He further emphasizes that a positive aspect is that "the parties agree on the main features of the report and that there is a focus on civil defense."

Lieutenant Colonel Björn Nolén, active at K 4 and military blogger under the signature Jägarchefen, writes that the section concerning the development of ranger and Norrland ranger battalions for [...] national special operations and in some cases for support to NATO's special operations is "really good!".

Patrik Oksanen, Senior Fellow at the think tank Frivärld, briefly comments that "[t]o call it a major investment is an illusion," in response to Torbjörn Nilsson's, journalist at Svenska Dagbladet, statement that today's announcement compared to budgets from a few decades ago cannot be called a "major investment."

Henrik Paulsson, researcher at FHS, thinks it is positive how much the report dedicates to defense innovation, something he believes has been absent in previous reports.

Security and Defense Companies welcome "that the committee clearly states the importance of companies for building increased capability." They further write that they note "that the Defense Committee places great emphasis on technical expertise and its increased importance for operational capability. However, the committee misses its significant security policy importance and gets stuck in other parts of capability needs and technology development up to 2030."