Månad: september 2026

[…] I dag er det kun ca. 15 prosent av et årskull som blir kalt inn til førstegangstjeneste. Resten av befolkningen sitter igjen med en snever forestilling om hva Forsvaret er, og er helt uten praktisk erfaring eller forståelse for hva det innebærer å forsvare landet sitt med våpen i hånd.

Vi har ikke lenger en allmenn verneplikt, men en selektiv modell, som etter vår oppfatning påfører skader på grunnfjellet i totalforsvaret.

Den selektive verneplikten har minst to negative konsekvenser, slik vi ser det: Den mest åpenbare negative effekten er at vi får svekket forsvarsevne ved at vi mangler utholdenhet. Vi har færre soldater og dermed redusert evne til å utholde en væpnet konflikt utover timer og dager.

Den andre, og mer utilsiktede konsekvensen, er at veldig få nå har tilstrekkelig innsikt i hvordan forsvarskampen foregår og hva som kreves av sivilsamfunnet. […]

Av den grunn mener vi at verneplikten må styrkes betydelig. Som et minimum bør alle innom grunnutdanning på to-tre måneder, hvorfra man kan rekruttere videre etter Forsvarets behov. […]

I dag er det svært marginale skavanker som skal til før man lukes ut på sesjon. Dette kan være personer med høy motivasjon og som ellers utviser allment god dømmekraft, men som i dag ikke når opp blant de ytterst få som blir kalt inn.

Dette kan føre til at Forsvaret ses på som en elitistisk organisasjon der avstanden til resten av befolkningen blir større og større for hvert år som går. Vil en slik organisasjon ha nok støtte og forankring i befolkningen i krig og konflikt? Vil den spisse enden knekke av den massive trusselen vi potensielt må håndtere? Läs artikel

[…] – Jeg vil sige helt generelt, at i den sikkerhedspolitiske situation, vi står i, så bruger jeg ikke min energi på alt det, man ikke må. Jeg tænker, at vi skal kunne forsvare os mod vores fjender, og vores fjender rykker tættere på, og det kommer de også til at gøre i Arktis, siger Mette Frederiksen (S). […]

I 1957 gav daværende statsminister H.C. Hansen (S) i al hemmelighed amerikanerne tilladelse til at have atomvåben i Grønland – efter at han i øvrigt havde ført kampagne for et atomvåbenfrit Danmark.

Nogle år senere, i 1968, styrtede et amerikansk B52-bombefly ned ved Thule med brintbomber, og området blev radioaktivt forurenet.

Efterfølgende indgik USA og Danmark en aftale om, at der ikke måtte være atomvåben i Grønland. Det gælder også den aftale, der blev indgået tirsdag i denne uge, som i store træk ikke ændrer noget militært for USA’s tilstedeværelse i Grønland. […]

– Det vigtige for os er, at vores atompolitik er intakt, og at vi ikke i denne sammenhæng giver USA nogen større adgang, end de egentlig havde i forvejen. Jeg skal ikke undersælge aftalen, men på det her felt er det en gentagelse af de rettigheder, som USA i forvejen har, siger Lars Løkke. Läs artikel

[…] Dette er de enige om:

• USA får lov til å bygge to nye militærbaser på Grønland. De skal bygges i Narsarsuaq i sør og Mestersvig i øst.
• USA har allerede en base på Grønland. Denne får de nå utvide og oppgradere.
• USA kan også lage flere nye baser hvis det trengs. USA skal ha kontroll over sine baser.
• USA kan bruke luftrom, sjøen og land på Grønland til militære formål.
• Land utenfor Nato får ikke ha soldater eller militære anlegg på Grønland.
• Danmark skal ha flere soldater og bedre sikkerhet i Arktis.
• Hvis Grønland senere blir selvstendig, skal landet fortsatt være med i Nato.
• Avtalen har ingen sluttdato. Den kan bare avsluttes hvis alle partene er enige.

In a speech to the UN General Assembly Wednesday, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the U.S. and Israeli war against his country. Holding up pictures of children killed in a U.S. attack on a school in Minab, he claimed that Iranians were “victims of terrorism.” “Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions,” he said, “and we defended ourselves with utmost strength.” Pezeshkian also stated that his country was not seeking nuclear weapons, but insisted on its “inherent” right to nuclear power. “We say it clearly: No nuclear weapons and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology.”

The speech also criticized the response of the international community to what Pezeshkian characterized as Israeli aggression. “Israel kills, but Iran is subject to sanctions,” the Iranian president said. He concluded with a message for the White House: “We will never bow our heads or bend the knee. We are ready for dialogue, diplomacy and negotiations but will never accept the language of force.” Läs artikel

USA bjuder in Vladimir Putin till G20-mötet – ett närmande till Ryssland som utrikesminister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) starkt kritiserar.
– Jag noterar att Ryssland i allt fler sammanhang får komma in i värmen. Det är någonting som jag inte alls välkomnar, säger Stenergard till TV4 Nyheterna.

USA:s utrikesminister Marco Rubio bjuder in Rysslands president Vladimir Putin till G20-toppmötet i Miami i december.

”För att lösa problem måste man träffa de människor man är oense med eller de man kanske har vissa problem med, så vi har bjudit in president Putin till G20-mötet. Vi ser det som en möjlighet för honom att föra en dialog inte bara med presidenten utan även med andra världsledare. Vi hoppas att han kommer att acceptera inbjudan”, säger Rubio under ett tal vid FN:s högkvarter. […]

Maria Malmer Stenergard tycker att pressen på Ryssland snarare borde öka, särskilt nu när landet går mot ännu en svår och kall vinter.

– Jag är väldigt bekymrad över den utveckling vi ser där man delvis minskar pressen på Ryssland när man istället borde öka och där Ukraina inte får tillräckligt mycket stöd, säger hon. Läs artikel

Finnish President Alexander Stubb has a message to European partners amid growing warnings of further Russian escalation: Keep calm and carry on.

In recent days, top European officials have ever-more-loudly sounded the alarm about intensifying Russian hybrid warfare, with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warning that Moscow could send drones or missiles into the territory of NATO countries supporting Ukraine in “the next few months.” The head of the Czech security service warned that Russia could undertake “a limited incursion, false-flag provocations, a massive influence campaign” in a matter of “months, not years.”

Yet Stubb has a different message. Although he acknowledges that Europe needs to prepare for “continued hybrid and sabotage attacks” by Russia, the Finnish president warns that Europe shouldn’t “overreact,” as Moscow to scare allies into slowing down support for Ukraine.

“We have to be very careful and understand that Russia is trying to destabilize and scare Europe. And any time we overreact to a hybrid attack, they have actually won the battle in that particular way,” Stubb told POLITICO during an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

“We also have to understand that it is not in the interest of Russia nor in the capacity of Russia to go full-scale” with military escalation, Stubb added. “So they will continue to intimidate and we just have to be, as I say, cool, calm and collected in this situation.” Läs artikel

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to “annihilate” Iran if diplomatic efforts to end his nearly seven-month-old war do not succeed. Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, he also touted both his peacemaking record and an increasingly belligerent U.S. foreign policy stretching from the Middle East to Venezuela to Greenland.

Trump presented the past year as proof that military force and economic pressure could resolve conflicts that diplomacy had failed to settle. […]

The leading example of this approach, Trump said, was Iran, which, in his telling, has rejected Washington’s diplomatic overtures that had pushed Trump to take military action with Israel in June 2025 and then launch a much larger-scale war beginning at the end of February.

“I have a big decision to make,” Trump said of the current status of the war. “Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before (…) Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly?”

Trump has made several similarly dark threats against Iran during the conflict, but they have done little to alter Tehran’s negotiating position, and the two sides appear stuck in a standoff, with some fearing that the operation is doomed to become another American “forever war”. Läs artikel

USA har vägrat utfärda visum till medlemmar i den iranske presidenten Masoud Pezeshkians delegation – bland annat hans kommunikationsteam – inför resan till FN:s generalförsamling, rapporterar iranska statliga medier.

Pezeshkian är den högst uppsatte iranska företrädaren som besöker USA sedan kriget i Mellanöstern inleddes med amerikansk-israeliska anfall mot Iran i februari. Han ska tala inför FN:s generalförsamling på onsdag. Den statliga iranska nyhetsbyrån IRNA talar om ”ett fientligt drag utan motstycke från den amerikanska regeringen”.

Utrikesministeriets talesperson Esmaeil Baqaei anklagar president Donalds Trumps administration för att trampa på rätten till tillgång till information. Läs artikel

NATO has 4,000-page plans in place in case the situation on its eastern flank escalates, NATO Military Committee chair Adm. Giuseppe Cavo Dragone said Saturday. […]

”We have plans for the eastern flank — three plans, to be precise — to be ready for any kind of escalation,” he said, noting that the plans cover actions, movements and countermeasures. […]

Speaking about ammunition stocks in the event of a possible prolonged conflict with Russia, Dragone acknowledged that NATO is fully aware of the issue, particularly given the war in Ukraine and the enormous amount of ammunition both sides use every day. He said this is precisely why NATO is investing in and encouraging the defense industry to change — moving away from the peacetime mentality that prevailed just four years ago and increasing production capacity so that the industry is prepared for a prolonged war and can meet the necessary demand. Läs artikel

[…] By dispersing aircraft across several locations, the Norwegian Air Force says it can reduce its vulnerability and increase its flexibility.

”Several airfields in Norway have been used to operate F-35s from, and Norwegian F-35s have previously also operated from Vidsel in Sweden. In September 2023, two Norwegian F-35As landed on a road in Tervo, Finland. It was the first time an F-35A had landed on a road,” the Norwegian Air Force said in a statement.

Under normal circumstances, the majority of Norway’s F-35s are based at Ørland Air Base in southern Norway. At least two aircraft are stationed at Evenes Air Station inside the Arctic Circle at any given time as part of NATO’s northernmost Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) mission. Within minutes, the pair can be airborne and heading north to intercept Russian military aircraft operating over the Barents and Norwegian Seas. […]

But while Norwegian pilots can fly into Finnish airspace, Norway itself maintains its Cold War-era practice of imposing restrictions on allied fighter operations over eastern Finnmark. This is the part of Norwegian sovereign airspace closest to the Russian border.

The self-imposed security and defence restrictions in the Finnmark region have a historical precedent. They are linked to concerns about provoking Moscow, whose main naval nuclear assets are based along the coast of the Kola Peninsula.

Solli believes that the increasing flexibility in the movement of pilots and aircraft created by the new multinational F-35 agreements could challenge Norway’s current regulations governing allied flights east of 28 degrees longitude over Finnmark.

”Allied fighter aircraft flying in the Baltic states and Finland can fly close to the border with Russia. Only Norway has a buffer zone at the border, and it will disappear in the long term to enable a similar system among all NATO states in the north,” Per Erik Solli told the Barents Observer. Läs artikel