7 maneuver battalions and 14 battalions of various sorts with a readiness of one week. The Home Guard was reduced in size to 22,000 soldiers. In 2019 the Swedish Armed Forces, now with a restored national service system combined with volunteer forces, aimed to reach 3 brigades as maneuver units by 2025. Re-implementing conscription After having ended the universal male conscription system in 2010, as well as deactivating conscription in peacetime, the conscription system was re-activated in 2017. Since 2018 both women and men are conscripted on equal terms. The motivation behind reactivating conscription was the need for personnel, as volunteer numbers proved to be insufficient to maintain the armed forces. The Swedish defence forces are currently, educating 5,000-6,000 conscripts per year. However, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the defence forces stated that there is a need for significantly more than the current. By december 2022, it was announced to increase the yearly conscripted to 10,000 by the end of 2035. In addition, figures from 2022, show that 79% of Swedes support in some form, an increase in the number of people who are conscripted. 47% of the respondents said that the majority of 19/20 year-olds should perform conscription. Personnel structure Military personnel of the Swedish Armed Forces consists of: Officer OFF/K – Regular continuously serving officers (OF1-OF9). Officer OFF/T – Reserve part-time officers (OF1-OF3). Specialistofficer SO/K – Regular continuously serving NCO (OR6-OR9). Specialistofficer SO/T – Reserve part-time serving NCO (OR6-OR7). GSS/K – Regular continuously serving enlisted (OR1-OR5). GSS/T – Reserve part-time serving enlisted (OR1-OR5). GSS/P – Personnel in wartime placement (OR1-OR5). K = Continuously T = Part-time P = Conscript, for personnel drafted under the Swedish law of comprehensive defense duty Planned size of the Swedish Armed Forces 2011–2020 Annual recruitment of GSS is assumed to be about 4,000 persons. Source: Criticism and research In 2008, professor Mats Alvesson of the University of Lund and Karl Ydén of the University of Göteborg claimed in an op-ed, based on Ydén's doctoral dissertation, that a large part of the officer corps of the Swedish Armed Forces was preoccupied with administrative tasks instead of training soldiers or partaking in international operations. They claimed that Swedish officers were mainly focused on climbing the ranks and thereby increasing their wages and that the main way of doing this is to take more training courses, which decreases the number of officers that are specialized