Norway is described as failing at the governmental level before its forces had a fair chance to contest the German landings. An immediate broadcast and reserve call-up after Denmark was attacked could have secured key points and made collaboration by individual commanders far more difficult. A later follow-up notes that Norwegian military authorities did not possess a clear independent power to mobilize the reserves without government action. Sweden, by contrast, mobilized promptly when the regional danger became unmistakable. The comparison makes readiness, legal authority, and political decision speed more important than a simple judgment that Scandinavian states were militarily incapable of resistance.
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Mobilization separated Sweden's deterrence from Norway's collapse
The answer argues that Norway's fall does not prove Sweden would also have collapsed, because the two governments reacted very differently to the invasion of Denmark.