Maybe I can post one more reply to the question Where's Scandinavia under this topic, for it wasn't so irrelevant to talk about military history.  Just think about this: pan-Scandinavianism pretty much died as an idea after Denmark was left alone against German pressure during the the Second War of Schleswig.  And few more words about the child soldiers of 1813/1945: invading Russians found only young boys and old men in Finland during the Great Nordic War, because almost all Finnish men were taken to Swedish Army and killed in Poland and there was hardly anybody left to defend homeland. Alliance of defense with Sweden didn't work well then. Well it wasn't an alliance but age of colonnization. Today we can do equal co-operation in defence without Sverige kämpar till sista finnen-strategy. I just envy Sweden's defence budget, which is not bigger just in absolut mean but also in percentage of GNP.