Rudberg was convinced that the navy should be accorded greater importance in the Swedish defense , and he argued for this in the military management . Meanwhile , Sweden was subjected to repeated underwater violations and Rudberg was forced to redirect the emergency preparedness system to meet the threats . The navy went from being a school navy to become a contingency navy and the coastal artillery began with a constant surveillance of sensitive areas . New equipment was also procured for the submarine protection . Rudberg could collectively leave a qualitatively strengthened navy when he retired in 1984 . As the Chief of the Navy , Rudberg would in the event of a military attack on Sweden or in a military crisis immediately be flown to England where he would act as a kind of " reserve Supreme Commander " but also be a link between Sweden and the Allied forces . The Chief of the Army would be the Supreme Commander 's deputy and Chief of the Air Force would be the commanding officer at the front . In a news article in '' Svenska Dagbladet '' in 1998 , Rudberg explained that after Prime Minister Olof Palme 's assassination in Stockholm on 28 February 1986 , Rudberg , who until recently had been the Chief of the Navy , had called the Supreme Commander Lennart Ljung and announced that he was ready to travel to Washington , D.C. , where Sweden 's naval chief had his place in the event of a war
assassination in Stockholm
Assassination of Olof Palme
Per Rudberg