Defending NATO’s Northern Flank
Defending NATO’s Northern Flank

Author: Lon Strauss

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-03

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1000996999

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This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. NATO’s northern flank is a large maritime and littoral theatre, where NATO directly borders Russia’s Northern Fleet Military Administrative Territory, which is the location of some of Russia’s most potent air, sea, and land power capabilities. While military tensions on the northern flank had been relatively low for years, the Ukraine war and increased great-power rivalry have altered that dynamic, with heightened geopolitical tensions. This has increased the focus on military-strategic competition in this northernmost region of the alliance. This book presents new assessments of several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. With an analysis of the security and political climate in the High North and of developments in Western military strategies, capabilities, doctrines, and operational concepts, the volume seeks to bring together an holistic understanding of the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the North Atlantic states and NATO in this dynamic area of responsibility for the alliance. In doing this, the book provides key insights into the role of branch-specific and joint approaches to power projection and operations in the High North, which also include selected country case studies. This book will be of much interest to students of NATO, military studies, security studies, and International Relations.

Defending Norway and the Northern Flank
Defending Norway and the Northern Flank

Author: Michael Kevin Mahon

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this thesis was to determine an appropriate strategy for the defense of NATO's Northern Flank. If NATO fails to successfully defend this Flank, its vital North Atlantic SLOCS will be severly threatened and the rear of the Central Front will be exposed to attack from the sea. Norway's strategic location makes it the key to the defense of the region. Deterrence, the defense of Norway, and the protection of the Atlantic SLOCS are the fundamental goals of NATO in the region. Under current conditions NATO must meet two basic objectives to achieve these goals--the Alliance must provide reinforcements to Norway very early in a crisis and it must control the Norwegian Sea to maintain the war effort after the outbreak of hostilities. Four strategic options were considered in this analysis: expansion of deterrence, increased prepositioning, a defensive barrier, and forward defense. Of the four strategies, forward defense is recommended because it is the only strategy that adequately addresses the basic objectives.

Enhancing Deterrence and Defence on NATO's Northern Flank
Enhancing Deterrence and Defence on NATO's Northern Flank

Author: James Black

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13:

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As a founding member of NATO, Norway supports efforts to enhance deterrence, crisis management and regional security in the North Atlantic and High North — a region commonly understood to include territories in Scandinavia and northern Russia, as well as the surrounding waters of the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea and North Sea. To help ensure effective delivery of these tasks and inform ongoing strategy and policy development, Norway needs insight into other NATO Allies' perspectives on strategic opportunities and challenges in the region. Researchers from RAND Europe and the RAND Corporation combined a targeted document review with expert workshops and field visits to gather and analyse evidence in support of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence's (MOD) strategy development, planning and defence policy. Researchers examined the perspectives of defence officials from Denmark, France, Germany, the UK, the US and NATO institutions and this analysis fed into a summary of findings alongside five strategic options for the MOD to consider.

Defending NATO's Northern Flank
Defending NATO's Northern Flank

Author: Lon Strauss

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Published: 2023-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781003343905

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"This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic region. NATO's northern flank is a large maritime and littoral theatre, where NATO directly borders Russia's Northern Fleet Military Administrative Territory, which is the location of some of Russia's most potent air, sea, and land power capabilities. While military tensions on the northern flank had been relatively low for years, the Ukraine war and increased great-power rivalry have altered that dynamic, with heightened geopolitical tensions. This has increased the focus on military-strategic competition in this northernmost region of the alliance. This book presents new assessments of several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic region. With an analysis of the security and political climate in the High North, and of developments in Western military strategies, capabilities, doctrines, and operational concepts, the volume seeks to bring together an holistic understanding of the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the North Atlantic states and NATO in this dynamic area of responsibility for the alliance. In doing this, the book provides key insights into the role of intelligence, as well as branch-specific and joint approaches to power-projection and operations in the High North, which also includes selected country case studies. This book will be of much interest to students of NATO, military studies, security studies and International Relations"--

Soviet Strategy and NATO's Northern Flank
Soviet Strategy and NATO's Northern Flank

Author: William K. Sullivan

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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For historical, political, and military reasons, the Soviet Union has coveted the Nordic region, encompassing Norway, Sweden, and Denmark and the surrounding waters. The Soviet's overriding strategic objectives in the Nordic region are to protect its northern flank and secure the sea lines of communication to the North Atlantic from the Murmansk area through the Barents and North Seas and from the Leningrad area through the Baltic and North Seas. In pursuit of the above objectives, the Soviets are expanding their area of influence farther westward from the naval bases of the Baltic and Barents Seas to the forward defense line of Western naval strategy in the North Atlantic, the strategic Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap. This expansion of Soviet naval jurisdiction, by flanking movements through the Barents, Norwegian, Baltic, and North Seas, may eventually be intended to isolate the Nordic region from Western influence and eradicate NATO's Northern Flank. The NATO Alliance must recognize that the resolution of the security problems along the Northern Flank may essentially be a naval issue.

NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda

Author: Colin McInnes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1000262839

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This book, first published in 1990, is an incisive examination of NATO’s strategy for the defence of the central front – the concern that has lain at the heart of NATO since its formation. Politically, the central front marked the post-war division of Europe into two competing blocs; militarily, it has represented the area of greatest force concentration and greatest threat. As NATO’s strategic agenda changed with the end of the Cold War, the central front remained a critical concern. This book analyses the structure, strategy and doctrines of both East and West, and examines the relationship of NATO strategy to conventional force doctrines.

Nato, the Next Thirty Years
Nato, the Next Thirty Years

Author: Kenneth A. Myers

Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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Papers from a conference held in Brussels, September 1-3, 1979 to identify and analyze the problems NATO will confront during the next thirty years and to strengthen the network of transatlantic communication that will help the alliance meet future challenges.