“Sweden and Finland’s Accession to NATO Fundamentally Changes How We Think About the Defense of Norway” Kirkenes: "Sweden and Finland's accession to NATO will fundamentally change how we think about the defense of Norway and NATO in the north. Together we must rethink logistics and how we dispose of our forces," said Norwegian Chief of Defense Eirik Kristoffersen. On Wednesday, he met chiefs of defense from Sweden and Finland at NATO's northern flank.
I Was Not Going to Kyiv, I Was Going to Kirkenes (Commentary) For almost 9 hours, the small Dash-8 plane fought its way through Northern Norwegian winter storms. Three of the said hours were spent in a battle from the plane's parking lot to a petrol pump a couple of tens of meters away. It would have taken me a shorter time to fly from Oslo to New York.
