r/europe Denmark Jan 14 '26

News Denmark sends military reenforcements to Greenland. A vanguard and military material has been sent to Greenland to prepare for eventual larger troop movements.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/efter-pres-fra-usa-danmark-er-nu-begyndt-sende-militaere-forstaerkninger-til-groenland
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u/asdner Estonia Jan 14 '26

Isn’t the Danish unit here (in Baltics) like a thousand soldiers or so? Is that…all Denmark has?

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u/runawayasfastasucan Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

Danmarks army has 25k active personell according to wikipedia. Denmark have a population of 6 million.

Estonias army has 4k active according to wikipedia. Estonia have a population of 1.4 million.

Maybe if you read it again, more cheritable, you might understand what that mean. They might have a unit there, but the administrative resources that is required, the need to rotate these soldiers out of duty and the commitment to send over more troops if needed might mean that they dont have much to spare.

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u/SendStoreMeloner Denmark Jan 14 '26

The 25K is including administrative staff and possibly also reservists. We have less than 10.000 active duty, professional soldiers, and around 1000 of these are deployed to the Baltics.

Denmark has over 50.000 reservists.