As a Yes to the Swedish effort against IS – Göteborgs-Posten

Russian soldiers in the Syrian World Heritage city of Palmyra, recently recaptured from Islamic State. Photo: Hassan Ammar, AP, TT

Four of ten Swedes believe that Sweden should participate if there is an international military action against the Islamic state. Meanwhile, confidence in the defense forces higher than the more than ten years.

Questions regarding defense are included in the annual survey of a statistical sample of the population that are made of SOM Institute at Gothenburg University.

a new question in the latest survey was whether Sweden should participate in any international military action against the Islamic state. 40 percent said yes, while 23 percent said no. Support was highest among people with party preference for the Conservatives or the Sweden Democrats.

The year before there was a question of Swedish involvement in a military operation in Syria, without any particular enemy was identified. They said 62 percent no.

– It’s easier to decide to participate in an operation against someone who cuts the throats of the people Youtube says Karl Ydén, defense scientists with Chalmers as a base.

Confidence in the Swedish defense is also higher than ever. The proportion of respondents with high or very high confidence in the defense is slightly larger than the proportion with little or very little confidence. It has not happened since 2002.

The support for universal military service has also increased, to 51 percent.

Fact: As poll

the latest survey by the SOM Institute at Gothenburg University were sent to 17 000 people in a statistical sample of the population.

the survey was done in the fall of 2015.

the response rate was 51 percent, which is considered relatively good for such a study.

all respondents were not all issues.

“As” stands for society, public opinion and media .

Source: SOM Institute