“We saw a need to create a tailored model for Finland to ensure that allied troops can show their presence and defence capabilities here when we want to,” Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen said. Next week, Finland will attend its second Nato summit as a full member of the alliance, inContinue Reading
Finland hopes the decisions taken at the summit will offer a bridge for Ukraine to join Nato in the future. Finnish President Alexander Stubb will attend the Nato 2024 summit in Washington DC, United States, next week, the Office of the President announced on Tuesday. Key topics of the summitContinue Reading
Asylum policy and support for Ukraine are two issues in which the views of a majority of voters and most candidates in the EU parliamentary election diverge. A new report by the Natopoll research project has found that people in Finland are far more in favour of turning back irregularContinue Reading
The Arctic region is increasingly becoming a new frontier for geostrategic competition between the powers. Moscow and Beijing see eye-to-eye on the need to preserve the Arctic as “a territory of peace, low military-political tension, and stability,” as President Vladimir Putin’s state visit to China underlined. Russia and China willContinue Reading
The Russian bordering Nordic nation of Norway has announced it will be considerably increasing the size of its armed forces over the next decade, in the most significant change in its defence in modern times. The Norwegian government made the big reveal of its long-term defence renewal plan on Friday, sayingContinue Reading
NATO Nordic Response 2024 exercise has, according to the alliance, significantly increased the combat readiness of its troops. But it has also increased the cost to Norwegian households of dealing with the consequences of the military training. This was reported by the Norwegian magazine Forsvarets Forum. It is reported thatContinue Reading
The termination of the international investigation into the causes of the Nord Stream explosions raises many questions about who was responsible for the terror attack and for what purpose. There is no denying the fact that sabotage of such a large transnational project is not like putting a firecracker inContinue Reading
For the past few years, Norway has been steadily modernising its armed forces by acquiring new types of weapons. The most significant arms programme in recent years is the purchase of F-35 multirole aircraft, but besides them, this Scandinavian country has received or will soon receive Leopard 2 main battleContinue Reading
Norway estimated the damage inflicted to its territory by NATO’s Nordic Response exercise at up to 8 million Norwegian kroner ($750,000), says Forsvarets Forum, a journal published by the Norwegian armed forces. According to the journal, the country’s authorities received lots of various complaints after the exercises, ranging from brokenContinue Reading
The Arctic environment has spurred the US Marine Corps (USMC) as the land-component lead for ‘Nordic Response 2024′ NATO exercise held in March in Norway to recalibrate the most effective and safest way to move equipment and people, according to Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Fitzsimmons, senior watch officer for the exercise’sContinue Reading