Bengt-Arne Johansson

Lieutenant General Bengt Arne (Bengt-Arne) Johansson (born 1 October 1943) is a retired Swedish Coastal Artillery/Swedish Amphibious Corps officer. His senior commands include Operation Commander/Deputy Chief of the Joint Operations Command (1997–1998), Deputy Chief of the General Training and Management Directorate (1998–2000) and as Chief of the General Training and Management Directorate (2000–2003).

Early life Johansson was born on 1 October 1943 in Örgryte Parish, Gothenburg and Bohus County, Sweden. He passed studentexamen at the Swedish Armed Forces School for Secondary Education in 1968.

Career Johansson graduated from Royal Swedish Naval Academy in 1969 and was commissioned as an officer the same year in Gotland Coastal Artillery Corps with the rank of second lieutenant., where he from 1969 to 1978 served as instructor, platoon leader and company commander. Johansson was promoted to lieutenant in 1971 and to captain in 1972. He attended the Staff Course at the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College from 1978 to 1980. In 1980, he was promoted to major in Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment, whereupon he from 1980 to 1981 served in the staff of the Eastern Military District. Johansson then attended the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in the United States from 1981 to 1982. Back in Sweden, he served as a teacher of strategy at the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College from 1982 to 1984 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1983. He then served as first teacher of tactics at the Swedish Coast Artillery School (Kustartilleriets skjutskola, KAS) from 1984 to 1986 and served in the Intelligence Department in the Naval Staff from 1986 to 1987. In 1987, he was appointed lieutenant colonel with special position (Överstelöjtnant med särskild tjänsteställning), whereupon he served from 1987 to 1989 as department head at the Inspector of the Coastal Artillery Inspector and from 1989 to 1991 as head of Operations Section 1 in the Defence Staff. In 1994, he was promoted to senior colonel and from 1994 to 1997 he served as head of the Central Department in the Naval Command as well as deputy head of the Naval Command at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm. Johansson attended a course at the Swedish National Defence College (FHS) in 1992 and the management course at FHS in 1995 He then served as Deputy Chief of the General Training and Management Directorate (Grundorganisationsledningen, GRO) from 1998 to 2000. Johansson then served as Chief of the General Training and Management Directorate from 2000 to 2003 when he retired from active service.

From 2005 to 2009, Johansson was chairman of Club Nórdico, a club for Scandinavian expatries in Fuengirola, Spain.

Dates of rank 1969 – Second lieutenant 1971 – Lieutenant 1972 – Captain 1980 – Major 1983 – Lieutenant colonel 1987 – 1991 – Colonel 1994 – Senior colonel 1 July 1997 – Major general 2000 – Lieutenant general

Awards and decorations

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences (1988) Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1988)