Overview
- About 13,500 letters inform selected owners that homes, vehicles, boats and machinery could be taken for defense use in a crisis or war.
- The notices state any seizure would initially last up to one year and could be extended if required.
- Roughly two thirds of this year’s mailings renew existing requisition orders rather than create new ones.
- Officials say the notices have no practical effect in peacetime and are targeted using a national database of relevant resources.
- Army logistics chief Anders Jernberg calls the security situation the most serious since World War II, noting Norway’s NATO role and border with Russia.