Forsvarsministeren, statsministeren og finansministeren fortalde om innkjøpet i dag. Forsvarssjefen anbefalte ikkje dette, men er i dag positiv til antalet. Regjeringa har planlagt for å kjøpe inn fleire nye stridsvogner, sjølv om forsvarssjefen ikkje anbefalte dette. Kor mange stridsvogner dei ville kjøpe, og kva typar har ikkje vore kjent førContinue Reading
Arctic Dolphin is an annual military exercise focused on the annual submarine commander course. It involves the participation of Norwegian and allied military ships and aircraft and takes place in the North Sea off the coast of Bergen and in areas between Stord and Sognefjorden. The exercise is important forContinue Reading
Å snakke om fred i Ukraina i dag er upopulært (ellers hvordan kan de enorme globale militærutgiftene rettferdiggjøres), vanskelig (nesten alle rapporter om krigens årsaker og situasjonen ved fronten er subjektive), og til og med farlig (man blir fort stemplet som Putin-tilhenger). Men vi må våge å snakke om fred!Continue Reading
Trucks packed with military hardware could this weekend be seen in big numbers on the roads that connect northern Sweden and Finland with neighbouring Norway. Several of them carried tanks and heavy armoured vehicles. Sweden and Finland have participated in the bi-annual Cold Response for more than 15 years. ButContinue Reading
Retrospective: Norway’s relationship with its superpower neighbour to the east has often been tense. In this article, Salve Dahle and co-authors give an eyewitness account of the time just after the fall of the Soviet Union, when cross-border tensions began to ease. Early on the morning of 30 July 1992,Continue Reading
Det er helt grunnleggende for norske interesser å ta vare på fiskerisamarbeidet med Russland, mener fiskeriminister Bjørnar Skjæran. – Det er ikke aktuelt å stenge russiske fiskefartøy ute av norsk økonomisk sone. Det skriver fiskeri- og havminister Bjørnar Skjæran i en e-post til NRK. Storbritannia har stengt havnene for russiskeContinue Reading
More than 30,000 western troops will take part in one of Nato’s biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war amid rising tensions in Europe as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For a month from Thursday, troops from 27 countries including the US, UK, Germany andContinue Reading
Norway’s blustery Fosen peninsula is a long way from anywhere, its mountains sustaining the Indigenous Sami and their reindeer for centuries. These same peaks are vital to the kingdom’s wind energy plans, and native herder Lena Haugen says her people pay the price. Snaking through the snowy terrain are dozens ofContinue Reading
BEIJING — They’re doing it again. Norway, with a population of just 5 million, is executing its quadrennial triumph over the rest of the world. It may not surpass the historic 2018 Pyeongchang Games, when Norway won 39 medals, eight more than its closest competitor, Germany, which has 16 timesContinue Reading
KRIGSFRYKT: Norge og de andre nordiske landene må være forberedt på at ukrainere på flukt kommer hit hvis det blir krig, tror forsker Jakub M. Godzimirski. En eventuell krig kan utløse en stor flyktningkrise i Europa. Landene nærmest vil få flest flyktninger fra Ukraina: Polen, Romania og Slovakia forbereder segContinue Reading