– The Joint Expeditionary Force represents a new contribution to European crisis management
Minister of defence, Norway, Frank Bakke-Jensen was the keynote speaker at the IFS-conference on Joint Expeditionary Force in Oslo today. He opened the conference by welcoming the participating friends, included Generals and Admirals and said “…I hope you will use this occasion to get a better understanding of the Joint ExpeditionaryContinue Reading
Europe Needs to Cure Its Military Malaise!
Western states have redefined their take on international security, defence and the very logic that underscores relations between states within the international system during the post-Cold War era. When the Berlin wall fell, and the Soviet Union disintegrated, the West practically dropped the ball on deterrence and defence. As aContinue Reading
Protecting the Nation while maintaining the moral high ground
France, over the last decades, has experienced a long series of deadly and vicious terror attacks on their national territory. There is obviously a variation on the motives behind these attacks, but at least in the current situation, an overwhelming majority of attacks with a deadly outcome has clearly beenContinue Reading
IFS conference Wednesday 30 May, Oslo: Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF)
On Wednesday 30 May, representatives from Norway, Sweden, Finland and the UK will discuss the multinational contingency force JEF, following an introduction by the Norwegian Minister of Defence (MoD) Frank Bakke-Jensen. Date: Wednesday 30 May 2018 Time: 08.30–10.30 (coffee and registration from 07.45. The MoD starts at 8.30 sharp, please be here onContinue Reading
Three new F-35 aircraft to Norway
On May 22, three new F-35 aircraft landed at Ørland Air Base in Norway. Six aircraft are now on Norwegian soil. – Our new F-35s are a major investment and the most important acquisition to strengthen the defence capabilities of our Armed Forces, said Defence Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen. By JanContinue Reading
A Five-Point Strategy to Oppose Russian Narrative Warfare
A Five-Point Strategy to Oppose Russian Narrative Warfare (with the limited tools we currently have available) Image from the Beyond propaganda series: Information at War: From China’s Three Warfares to NATO’s Narratives, September 2015/Legatum Institute. Click here to download your copy of the complete paper (21 pages) signed Paul Cobaugh. Paul-Russia-published versionContinue Reading
ISIS – When Serving Terrorism is an “All in the Family” Affair
How to Recover the Lost Children and Spouses of ISIS[1] Thirty-two-year-old American Samantha Elhassani, together with her four children—two brought into ISIS and two born there – is now awaiting her fate in a People’s Protection Units (YPG) camp near al-Hasakah, Syria. In 2014, she took her two small AmericanContinue Reading
A Poor Man in the Islamic State; ICSVE’s new Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Video Clip
ICSVE’s new Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative video, A Poor Man in the Islamic State, is based on the testimony of Syrian ISIS defector Abu Abdullah recorded in Turkey in October 2015 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla. In this video, Abu Abdullah talks about his work in theContinue Reading
Future acquisitions for the Norwegian Defence Sector 2018–2025
This document gives an overview of future acquisitions for the Norwegian Defence Sector in the period 2018 – 2025. You can download and read it here (in pdf): FAF 2018-2025 English – final.pdf The long term planning process outlines the continuous development of the Norwegian Defence Sector with respect to organisation, infrastructureContinue Reading
My Journey Towards Jihad – ICSVE’s new Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Video Clip
My Journey Towards Jihad is the 19th counter narrative video clip in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. It features Abu Albani, a Kosovar foreign fighter who went twice to Syria; first to join and fight with the Free Syrian Army and later to join and fight forContinue Reading