Norwegian Air Power Conference 2023

The Air Power Seminar 2023 set out to examine how military power can be developed to secure our coastal areas, particularly how air-maritime cooperation can be developed.

The objective was to take a closer look at the military challenges that result from our dependence on the resources from the ocean and the continental shelf.

This year’s conference offered several interesting presentations from renowned international and Norwegian speakers. They covered the spectrum from the overall political and strategic level to the development potential to improve interaction between air-military and naval units.

Conference video

We have collected lectures in both Norwegian and English in a video on the YouTube channel of the Norwegian Defence University College. The time stamps in the programme below correspond with the time stamps of the lectures that were held in English.

Program (in English)

1:00:59 China vs Taiwan in the missile era of maritime operations. Associate Professor, Christopher Twomey, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School 

2:02:10 The evolution of the UK Carrier Strike Group and its role in the next decade in the North Atlantic / High North, Cpt (N) Ainsley and Cpt (N) Sparrow, UK Carrier Strike Group 

2:27:13 The USMC and the Air Sea Battle; Concepts and developments, Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Carlson, USMC Capabilities Development, Directorate, Quantico, Virginia