The personnel composition is to be continuously adapted.

The Armed Forces’ full-time equivalents are to be reduced from approximately 29.000 at the end of 2004 (6.500 of which are full-time conscript equivalents) to approximately 26.400 full-time equivalents by the end of 2009. (2.450 of which will be full-time conscript equivalents). The personnel composition, etc., will be indicated in the annual appropriation act.
 
Reserve personnel will continue to be of great significance for the Armed Forces in relation to international missions as well as to the training of military units and Total Defence.

See organization chart

The ambition for the Armed Forces is to mobilise and deploy forces promptly and flexibly in international operations and to maintain deployed capacities equalling up to 2.000 personnel. (1.500 from the Army and 500 from the Navy and Air Force).