The Danish Defence Command (DCD) ( da, Forsvarskommando, ''FKO'') is the Danish joint military command and the top coordination and controlling authority of the

Danish military Danish Defence ( da, Forsvaret, fo, Danska verjan, kl, Illersuisut) is the unified armed forces of the Kingdom of Denmark charged with the defence of Denmark and its constituent, self-governing nations Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The Defe ...

. It is a Level I command authority, directly under the

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. It consists of the

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and three service staffs, Operations and Planning Staffs, known collectively as ''Forsvarsstaben'' (the Defence Staff),

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and the Special Operations Command.

History

The Defence Command was established on the basic of law no. 334 of 18 June 1969 about the origination of the Danish Defence; in order to reduce resources expended and make a true combined Defence command of Denmark. It was a continuation of the Danish defence re-construction of 1950, which erected Ministry of Defence, Chief of Defence, Defence Staff, Army Command, Søværnskommandoen and Flyverkommandoen. These latter commands were in 1969 combined into one and placed under the Ministry of Defence, giving the Chief of Defence full administrative and operational command of all branches of the Danish military. The staff of these former branch commands continued to exist inside FKO, but in 1982, which saw a major reconstruction of FKO, they too vanished in favour of an even more branch independent organisation. The reorganization resulted in a unified command structure similar to the previous General Command. The Danish Defence agreement 2005–09 called for another major re-construction of the Danish military, affecting the origination of FKO. Between 1973 and 2006 FKO was located in

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(Henriksholm Allé) a little north of

Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site ...

, in a modern steel and concrete building, built 1970 – November 1972 by Defence Construction Service. FKO moved to this building in March 1973. FKO moved to Søarsenalet on

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on July 24, 2006. As a result of the Danish Defence Agreement 2013–17, the FKO saw major structural reorganization, to such an extent that it was renamed Joint Defence Command ( da, Værnsfælles Forsvarskommando). On 1 January 2019, as part of the

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, the name was reverted to the previous name.

Organization

The entities and authorities which were previously subject to the operational commands, referring now directly to FKO.

References

External links

Forsvarskommandoen
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