Hvilke utfordringer står totalforsvaret overfor mtp å stå rustet til å møte morgendagens digitale utfordringer og trusselbilde?

Closing conference debate about cybersecurity in context of the total defence system.

Etterretningstjenestene og det nye trusselbildet: Er de beredt?

The current international situation places far higher demands on coordination, cooperation and interaction between the services than before. At the same time, there have been, and are, a number of different challenges associated with collaboration between PST and Norway's military intelligence....

Det haster med ny etterretningslov

Norway needs a new law on foreign intelligence

Biowar next? Security implications of the coronavirus

In this Strategic Update, Karsten Friis investigates the pandemic's potential consequences for the world, its armed forces, the integration of Europe, US-China relations, as well as the concept and practice of 'war' more broadly. Although much remains uncertain, the disruptions which are...

Åpen høring i Stortingets utenriks- og forsvarskomité torsdag 28. mai 2020

Karsten Friis and Vegard Valther Hansen participated to an open hearing in the Parliament about the proposed new law on the intelligence service.

Videokonferansehøring: Vilje til beredskap - evne til forsvar. Langtidsplan for forsvarsektoren (Prop. 62 S (2019-2020))

Ulf Sverdrup and Karsten Friis participated in open hearing about the long-term plan for the armed forces

Forsvarets langtidsplan til ompuss

(Op-ed in Norwegian only): The parliament sent the proposed long-term plan for the armed forces back to the government. In this op-ed, Karsten Friis and Ulf Sverdrup gives an onerview of the most pressing concerns the new plan should consider.

The Shifting Boundaries of Nordic Defence Cooperation

Nordic security and defence cooperation is shifting with the rapid rise and expansion of European defence cooperation. Spanning industrial collaboration, capability development, training and operations, planning, as well as other strategic measures, this new European momentum has manifested itself in...

Nordic perspectives on European security: Norway

How does Norway relate to the various new European defence cooperation formats? Which states are Norway coordinating with when engaging in these projects? Is there unexploited potential for common Nordic initiatives within the European formats? Or do traditional security relationships still take precedence?...

Forsvarets langtidsplan, det fagmilitære råd og trusselbildet.

As assessment of the upcoming new defence long term plan, CHODs advise, and the security landscape.

Europeisk sikkerhet under press – hva med Norge?

The lecture addressed European security in a historical and contemporary perspective, and asked what implications the new security landscape have for Norwegian security policy.

Civil-Military Relations in International Interventions: A New Analytical Framework

It is frequently claimed that success in interventions hinges largely on military–civilian coherence. However, despite high ambitions among politicians and organizations, coherence among intervening actors has proven challenging to achieve in practice. Why is this so? To answer this, the book approach...

A Governance and Risk Inventory for a Changing Arctic

Many government officials, military leaders, and political observers have proclaimed the rise of a new, post-Cold War global great power competition between the United States, Russia, and China with myriad implications. Using this new reality as the backdrop for the Arctic Security Roundtable at the...