Cover: Norway's Next Long-Term Defence Plan

Norway's Next Long-Term Defence Plan

An Allied Perspective

Published in: Norwegian Air Power Journal, pages 28–31 (March 2023)

Posted on RAND.org on March 28, 2023

by James Black, Kristin Thue

As Norway contemplates the priorities for its next Long-Term Defence Plan (LTP), it finds itself in a Europe, a NATO, and a global environment that have all changed markedly since the last iteration of the Plan was released in 2020. How to navigate these stormy and uncertain waters is a pressing question not only for defence planners in Oslo, but also for international allies, who look to Norway to help bolster defence and deterrence on NATO's northern flank.

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