Together with Michael Jonsson of FOI I wrote a piece for War on the Rocks on the importance of cooperation for creating the kind of “NATO-lake” some observers have been calling for as well as generally strengthening NATO’s northern flank.

With even greater cooperation and coordination, Sweden and Finland will be able to not only strengthen their own defense but also better protect an area stretching from the Arctic tip of Norway to the Baltics’ border with Russia. Russian fleets in Murmansk, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad will be better contained, and Moscow’s ability to threaten NATO’s northern flank will be gradually weakened.

Cooperation can make the NATO lake a reality –
Jonsson and Häggblom