Norwegian Army

The Norwegian Army, known in Norwegian as Haeren, is the land warfare service branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces and the oldest of the Norwegian service branches. It was established as a modern military organization under the command of the King of Norway in 1628. Over the following centuries the Army took part in several continental wars of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, fighting both in Norway and abroad, and it was especially engaged in World War II. From December 1951 much of the Army was declared for operations as part of Allied Forces Northern Europe within the NATO Military Command Structure, which tied the Norwegian land forces into the alliance's peacetime and wartime planning for northern Europe.