Nato will defend Norway’s Arctic territory against a Russian invasion “from the first centimetre” after learning from Ukraine, the commander of the Norwegian army has said.
For decades, Nato’s plan for defending the High North from Russia was a fighting withdrawal from the northern Finnmark region by British Royal Marines and Norwegian troops, buying time until US reinforcements arrived to help retake lost territory.
Yet President Putin’s war has demonstrated how difficult it is for a large force to move forward under drone-saturated skies, and President Trump’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric against Nato has thrown American support into doubt.
