Bengt Gustafsson became colonel and head of the Svea ingenjörregemente 1981 and became the following year the assistant undersecretary in the Defense department. He was also lieutenant-general and military commanders in the upper Norrland military area 1984-86.
he is best known as Sweden’s commander in chief during the years 1986 to 1994, and he led the thus the armed Forces for several of the 1980s, intensive ubåtsjakter.
