Antti Edvard Häkkänen is a Finnish politician from the National Coalition Party. He has served as Minister of Defence since June 2023 in the Orpo cabinet and as Member of Parliament since 2015. Häkkän
Häkkänen in 2024
Häkkänen with Finnish and Swedish Prime Ministers Petteri Orpo and Ulf Kristersson, November 2023
Häkkänen with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, February 2025
Secretary Marco Rubio meets with Finland President Alexander Stubb, Elina Valtonen and Antti Häkkänen, February 2026.
The Finnish Defence Forces are the military of Finland. The Finnish Defence Forces consist of the Finnish Army, the Finnish Navy, and the Finnish Air Force. In wartime, the Finnish Border Guard become
Antti Häkkänen
…the Orpo Cabinet. In February 2024, Häkkänen declared that he was planning to introduce legislation that would prohibit people from resigning from the Finnish Defence Forces' military reserve, while calling resigning reservists unpatriotic. The announcement led into a surge of resignation applications and the plan was widely…
Establishment of the first headquarters of the Finnish Defence Forces on 2 February 1918
Finnish soldier equipped with Lahti-Saloranta M-26 during the Winter War
Finnish troops equipped with Panzerfaust antitank weapons walk past a destroyed Soviet T-34 tank during the Battle of Tali-Ihantala. The lead soldier is also armed with a Suomi KP/-31.
Finnish soldiers taking the Finnish Defence Forces military oath