Karsten Friis
Senior Advisor and Head, Research Group on Security and Defence, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Karsten Friis is a Senior Adviser and Head of the Research Group on Security and Defence at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). Friis previously worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo, as well as for the Norwegian Armed Forces in Oslo and in Kosovo. He holds a Cand. Polit. in Political Science from the University of Oslo and a MSc in International Relations from London School of Economics.
The U.S. this year deployed 330 Marines to Norway. The concept is nothing new; it dates back to the 2005 Oslo-Washington agreement called Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway (MCPP-N). However, [...] More
