Emerging Security Considerations for NATO's Northern Flank
Since the inception of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the northern flank nations have played quite conspicuous roles in East-West politics, although in very different ways. Norway and Denmark are charter members of NATO, Iceland joining shortly thereafter; all have been consistently support...
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ftdtic:ADA154355 2023-05-15T16:47:58+02:00 Emerging Security Considerations for NATO's Northern Flank DELeon,P RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA 1984-12 text/html http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA154355 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA154355 en eng http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA154355 APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE DTIC AND NTIS Government and Political Science Military Operations Strategy and Tactics *NATO *POLITICAL SCIENCE *EAST WEST RELATIONS NUCLEAR WEAPONS USSR EUROPE POSITION(LOCATION) LOGISTICS SUPPORT PEACETIME SECURITY PATTERNS NORWAY POSTWAR OPERATIONS SWEDEN FINLAND DENMARK ICELAND NORTHERN EUROPE Nothern flank(NATO) Text 1984 ftdtic 2016-02-21T00:21:55Z Since the inception of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the northern flank nations have played quite conspicuous roles in East-West politics, although in very different ways. Norway and Denmark are charter members of NATO, Iceland joining shortly thereafter; all have been consistently supportive of NATO, albeit exercising low military profiles (e.g., neither Norway nor Denmark permits the peacetime location of nuclear weapons on their soil). Finland has traditionally acted as a buffer and broker between the Soviet Union and the other Scandinavian states, while Sweden has deliberately pursued a policy of strictly observed and well-armed neutrality. Although there have been some deviations from these general patterns, on the whole, they have held relatively constant in the post war years and need not be recounted at length here. The consensus regarding the Northern Flank is that it represents a stable geographic area, the quiet corner of Europe, one relatively devoid of the East-West volatilities and tensions which have characterized other parts of the continent over the past thirty years. Text Iceland Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC Technical Reports database Norway |
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Since the inception of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the northern flank nations have played quite conspicuous roles in East-West politics, although in very different ways. Norway and Denmark are charter members of NATO, Iceland joining shortly thereafter; all have been consistently supportive of NATO, albeit exercising low military profiles (e.g., neither Norway nor Denmark permits the peacetime location of nuclear weapons on their soil). Finland has traditionally acted as a buffer and broker between the Soviet Union and the other Scandinavian states, while Sweden has deliberately pursued a policy of strictly observed and well-armed neutrality. Although there have been some deviations from these general patterns, on the whole, they have held relatively constant in the post war years and need not be recounted at length here. The consensus regarding the Northern Flank is that it represents a stable geographic area, the quiet corner of Europe, one relatively devoid of the East-West volatilities and tensions which have characterized other parts of the continent over the past thirty years. |
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