Intelligence Regiment (Denmark)
| Intelligence Regiment | |
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| Efterretningregimentet | |
.svg) Coat of Arms | |
| Active | 1 March 2014 |
| Country |  Denmark |
| Branch |  Royal Danish Army |
| Type | Army Intelligence |
| Size | 457[1] |
| Part of | Army Staff |
| Garrison/HQ | Varde |
| Nickname(s) | EFR |
| Motto(s) | Viden er Styrke (Knowledge is Strength) |
| Website | Official website |
| Commanders | |
| Ceremonial chief | HM The King |
| Colonel of the Regiment | Lars Christian Küseler [2] |
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The Intelligence Regiment (Danish: Efterretningsregimentet, EFR) is a regiment of the Royal Danish Army. It was originally created as the Army Intelligence Centre (Danish: Hærens Efterretnings Center), and was a collection of all intelligence units, created by the Danish Defence Agreement 2013-2017 on the basis of lessons learned in Afghanistan and Iraq.[3] Following the Danish Defence Agreement 2018–23, the centre was upgraded to a regiment and the name was changed.
Structure
[edit]Today the Intelligence Regiment has 2 battalions:[4]
1 Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Battalion - HQ Platoon
- UAS Company
- EW Company, physically placed at Ryes Kaserne in Fredericia
- 2 Military Intelligence Battalion
Names of the regiment
[edit]| Hærens Efterretnings Center | Army Intelligence Centre | 2014-04-01 | – | 2018-12-31 |
| Efterretningsregimentet | Intelligence Regiment | 2019-01-01 | – |
References
[edit]- ^ "HEC: Tasks and organization" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ "HEC" (in Danish). Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ "The army forces intelligence service with new centre" (PDF) (in Danish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ "Efterretningsregimentets opgaver og enheder". Forsvaret. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ^ Rasmussen, Peter Ernstved (30 April 2018). "FC: "Det her er ikke nogen navneleg"" (in Danish). OLFI. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
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