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North European and North Atlantic Defense: The Challenges Return

Figure 1 Ms. Ine Eriksen Soreide. Credit: Norwegian MoD .......................................................................................... 12
Figure 2 The Norwegian Deputy Defense Minister Øystein BØ: Credit: Norwegian Ministry of Defense .......... 16

Figure 3 The current collaborative framework in terms of working nordic defense and security ......................... 21

Figure 4 Remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the official inauguration of the European
Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Finland .......................................................................... 23

Figure 5 The New European Centre of Excellence for countering hybrid threats .................................................... 24

Figure 6 From a Swedish video about Exercise Aurora 2017 ..................................................................................... 27
Figure 7 From the Proposed Danish Defence Agreement, 2018-2023. .................................................................... 29

Figure 8 From the Proposed Danish Defence Agreement, 2018-2023. .................................................................... 30

Figure 9 The Wasraw Pact Cold War Threat to the Nordics. ..................................................................................... 33

Figure 10 The Russian Threat to the Nordics in the current period. ............................................................................ 34

Figure 11 Shaping a Reverse engineering concept of operations to deal with the Russian threat to the nordics.
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Figure 12 Dmitry Rogozin (in white jacket) went to the North Pole late April 18, 2015 after his controversial
visit to Svalbard. The man to his right in red jacket is Russia’s Minister of Natural Resources and
Environment Sergey Donskoy. (Photo: from the Facebook profile of Dmitry Rogozin.) ................................. 38

Figure 13 Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin posted this photo of himself on April 18, 2015. The
photo is taken just outside the terminal building at Longyearbyen airport. (Photo: from Rogozin’s tweet.)
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Figure 14 Prime Minister Putin Addressing the Arctic Forum in Moscow, 2010 (Credit: SLD) ................................ 41

Figure 15 First Norwegian f-35 lands at luke afb. credit; USAF ................................................................................ 50

Figure 16 Norwegian F-35 on the Fort Worth Final Assembly line, September 2017. Credit: Lockheed Martin
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Figure 17The Royal Australian Air Force’s first P-8A Poseidon, A47-001 fly’s in formation with a current AP-
3C Orion over their home Base of RAAF Base Edinburgh in South Australia.Credit: Australian Department
of Defence ..................................................................................................................................................................... 60

Figure 18 P-8 and Triton integrated facility being built at RAAF Edinbourgh, near Adelaide in South Australia.
Credit: Australian Ministry of Defence ..................................................................................................................... 61

Figure 19 Shaping a ISR, C2 Strike Enterprise for the Kill Web Deterrence in Depth Strategy .......................... 63

Figure 20 Artists impressions of the ship's flight deck released before construction was underway. Credit: Daily
Mail ................................................................................................................................................................................. 66

Figure 21 HMS Iron Duke. Credit: UK MoD[/caption] ................................................................................................... 67

Second Line of Defense

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