Following text quoted from Finnish Defence Forces web site. The Defence Forces are divided into the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. More personnel are also needed to secure the mobilization of troops, to take care of tasks essential for the functioning of society and to replace men screened from call-up for combat duties.
Local troops cover the territory of the entire country.
The Navy's wartime composition includes two naval commands and the Air Force has a wartime composition of three air commands. The Finnish government's 1997 Defence White Paper strongly advocates the development of interoperability in support of international crisis management. The defence programme for 1998-2008 introduces a structural change in the Finnish defence forces, reducing the full mobilised defence force from 540,000 to 430,000 soldiers, while the number of main units, brigades, will come down from 27 to 22. Three of those brigades, one for each major military command area, will be equipped as Rapid Deployment Brigades. One of those will be especially earmarked for international crisis management tasks and trained and equipped accordingly.