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Braw in Defense One: How to Deal With Russian Information Warfare? Ask Sweden’s Subhunters

April 3, 2018

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Nordenman Quoted in DefenseNews on Sweden's Defense Policy

March 14, 2018

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On Security, the Nordics Should Cooperate, not Compete

March 5, 2018

When Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven meets US president Donald J. Trump for the first time on March 6, security and defense collaboration will likely be at the top of the agenda. A number of Nordic leaders have already met with Trump, and in their first meeting, he and Löfven have an opportunity to ensure that cooperation, not competition, sets the tone for future transatlantic security efforts between the United States and Nordic nations.

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Wieslander in ELN: Sweden and the CSDP: Keen on Security and Reluctant on Defence

January 26, 2018

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Securing Northern Europe – Bridging the Baltic Sea, North Atlantic and the Arctic

December 12, 2017

On December 12, 2017 the Atlantic Council’s Northern Europe Office and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung hosted a public conference in Stockholm to discuss the need to bridge perspectives and start forming a merged agenda to successfully face the security challenges in Northern Europe following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and aggression in Eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Keynote addresses were made by H.E. Peter Hultqvist, Defense Minister of Sweden; Minister Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden; and Ms. Tone Skogen, State Secretary, Ministry of Defense, Norway.

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NATO Chief says Allies Concerned about Russian Phone Jamming

October 30, 2017

NATO allies have raised concerns about what they call Russia's use of a kind of electronic warfare during military exercises last month that jammed some phone networks, alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday.
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Wieslander Joins the Newsmakers to Discuss the Growing Number of Swedes Supporting Sweden Joining NATO

October 10, 2017

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With a Little Help from My Friends: How Sweden is Balancing its Security in the Baltics

September 21, 2017

Sweden is currently conducting its largest military exercises in over twenty years. Almost 20,000 Swedish troops are participating in Aurora17, which will run until September 29. They are joined by military units from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Norway, and the United States, which has sent more than 1,000 troops, including a Patriot missile battery, helicopters, and a National Guard tank company.

On the other side of the Baltic Sea, Russia has been mobilizing what are believed to be up to 100,000 troops for its major exercise, Zapad 2017, which includes Belarus.

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Braw in the Financial Times: The Benefits of Conscription are Economic as Well as Military

September 10, 2017

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An EU Navy Is Impossible; Fortunately, It’s Not Necessary.

August 30, 2017

To rebuild robust naval forces, Europeans should think less like Americans, and more like Russians.
As I noted yesterday, Brexit has opened all sorts of talk about the future of British and European military activities. To continue the argument today, let’s tack towards naval matters. In “All the Queen's Ships” (Proceedings of the US Naval Institute, January 2017), James C. Bennett of the Economic Policy Centre in London recommended formation of a Union Navy, loosely composed of the Royal, Royal Canadian, Royal Australian, and Royal New Zealand Navies, under their single sovereign. As one might expect in his argument, “the four main Westminster democracies” could afford greater military capabilities together than separately. To an American, this might seem another brilliant idea that our allies will never get on with. But if practically speaking, discussing this is a waste of oxygen, then just how silly is talking about forming a single European Navy from the polyglot members of the European Union? To the contrary, Europeans can get on with rebuilding robust naval forces as a continent of equals—just by thinking less like Americans, and more like Russians.

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