Tag: defense

Royal infatuation sealed US support

"Intimate" and "private" is how author and royal researcher Tor Bomann-Larsen has described the "close relationship" between Norway's Crown Princess Martha and US President Franklin Delano...

US troops to get a lukewarm welcome

NEWS ANALYSIS: There's a reason why US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and several other top American defense officials have been trooping to Norway since early...

Secret meeting saved defense plan

UPDATED: Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide reportedly took part in a secret meeting at the Parliament early this week, in an effort to rescue efforts...

US soldiers due to arrive in Værnes in January

The Norwegian government's reported decision to allow 300 US soldiers to be stationed at Værnes near Trondheim continues to spark debate. Now the local...

Liberals’ leader objects to US Marines at local base

Trine Skei Grande, leader of the Liberal Party (Venstre), is really on a collision course this autum with the conservative government her party has...

Spying chief rejects calls for openness

Some residents of Northern Norway aren't at all happy about the amount of intelligence gathering going on in their communities and who's involved in...

Norway loses another war hero

Tributes have been published in Norwegian media all week, since news broke that one of Norway's last surviving war heroes had died at the age...

Russia sets off ‘busy week in the Barents’

With the Russian military stepping up its training exercises in the Arctic, and Norway keen to follow the action with not just one but...

US defense chief heading for Norway

Ashton "Ash" Carter, the US Secretary of Defense, was due to visit Norway's large military air station in Bodø this week. It will mark the first time...

Northerners fight for military bases

Critics of government plans to restructure and relocate military operations in Northern Norway were trooping into an open hearing at the Parliament this week,...
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