NATO and the North Atlantic

John Andreas Olsen is a colonel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force, currently assigned to London as defence attaché. He is also a visiting professor at the Swedish Defence University and a non-resident senior fellow of the Mitchell Institute. His previous assignments include tours as director of security analyses in the Norwegian MoD, deputy commander at NATO Headquarters, Sarajevo, dean of the Norwegian Defence University College and head of the college’s division for strategic studies. Olsen is a graduate of the German Command and Staff College and has served as liaison officer to the German Operational Command and as military assistant to the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. He has a doctorate from De Montfort University and a master’s degree from the University of Warwick. Olsen has published a series of books, including Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm (2003), John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power (2007), A History of Air Warfare (2010) and Airpower Reborn (2015).

• Introduction, John Andreas Olsen1. The Significance of the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Contribution, Rolf Tamnes2. The UK and the North Atlantic after Brexit, Malcolm Chalmers3. The Centrality of the North Atlantic to NATO and US Strategic Interests, John J Hamre and Heather A Conley4. Norway and the North Atlantic: Defence of the Northern Flank, Svein Efjestad5. The UK and the North Atlantic: A British Military Perspective, Peter Hudson and Peter Roberts6. The United States, the North Atlantic and Maritime Hybrid Warfare, James StavridisConclusions and Recommendations, John Andreas Olsen