Tag: defense

‘Russia and China threaten defense’

Norway's recently embattled military intelligence agency is pointing once again to Russia and China as posing the biggest defense threats. Both continue to move...

Defense faces new wave of demands

Norway will be maintaining its troops in Iraq, just as it faces allies' requests for more troops in Mali and patrol vessels in the...

Norway will pull out of Iraq, if asked

Just hours before delivering his annual New Year's address Monday evening, Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen couldn't predict the fate of Norwegian soldiers in Iraq...

Secret criticism flies around new F35s

Something seems to be wrong with the operating capabilities of Norway's growing fleet of new F35 fighter jets, but no one will specify what...

War hero granted a state funeral

UPDATED: One of Norway's last resistance heroes from World War II will be honoured next week with a funeral to be conducted at state...

Norway’s ‘Jens’ to calm NATO nerves

NEWS ANALYSIS: As nervous and bickering leaders of NATO member countries gathered in London on Tuesday, their own Norwegian leader Jens Stoltenberg was using...

US ambassador to leave amid drama

Less than two weeks after the US Secretary of the Navy, Richard V Spencer, was in Norway to visit top Norwegian officials, he finds...

Spy chief waits for probe results

The embattled chief of Norway's military intelligence agency E-tjenesten, Gen Lt Morten Haga Lunde, clearly felt compelled to utter some sort of response as questions...

Many responsible for frigate fiasco

UPDATED: The leader of Norway's state accident investigations board stressed on Friday that its role is not to place blame on who or what...

Defense build-up bad for the climate

Norway's new US-produced F35 fighter jets will contribute to considerably higher carbon emissions in 2030, the government admits, and that's right when emissions are...
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