1st Edition
Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations
1. Security and defense of NATO’s northern flank: An introduction
Lon Strauss and Njord Wegge
SECTION I: SECURITY, POWER PROJECTION, AND OPERATIONS ON NATO’S NORTHERN FLANK
2. The strategic challenge of expeditionary warfare and the defense of NATO’s northern flank
Lon Strauss and Njord Wegge
3. A defense dilemma and a possible security dilemma: Norway, the United States, and the defense of Northern Norway, 1960–1980
Stian Bones
4. The Russian way of regular warfare and the Arctic
Amund Osflaten
5. National security interests of Russia’s Northern Sea Route: Additional elements of domestic and international importance
Troy J. Bouffard
6. NATO, doctrines, and the Arctic
Palle Ydstebø
7. Norwegian problems of confidence building: Geopolitical exposure and military vulnerabilities in the High North
Tormod Heier
SECTION II: STRATEGIC INTERESTS AND THE ARCTIC
8. US national strategy in the Arctic
David Auerswald
9. Integrated naval deterrence in the Arctic: Deterring Russian aggression through US-Norwegian cooperation
Walter Berbrick and Lars Saunes
10. Operationalizing joint force capabilities and priorities for growing problem sets in the Arctic region
Ryan Burke and Jahara Matisek
11. Special operations forces in the Arctic: From heroes to zeroes?
Marius Kristiansen, Njål Hoem, and Leo Blanken
SECTION III: NATO’S NORTHERN FLANK STATES
12. Norway’s strategic role and interests at NATO’s northern flank: Finding a new balance?
Joachim Bentzen
13. Finnish and Swedish NATO membership: What does it hold for the Arctic?
Hanna Ojanen and Arto Väisänen
14. A kingdom divided against itself: The Kingdom of Denmark and the rise of Arctic security dynamics
Liselotte Odgaard
15. The UK as a near-Arctic state and essential regional security ally
Danita Catherine Burke
Biography
Lon Strauss is an associate professor of Military History at the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College.
Njord Wegge is a professor of Political Science at the Norwegian Defence University College/Norwegian Military Academy.
