Tuesday 3. February 2015
Welcome speech by the Commandant of the
RNoAF Academy, Colonel Morten Henriksen.
Opening remarks by the Chief of Staff of the
Royal Norwegian Air Force, Major General Per Egil
Rygg.
Do we see a new Russia?
12:00 – 12:15
The Royal Norwegian Air Force Band
Opening Remarks by the Chief of Staff
Administrative information by the project
officer for the Air Power Conference 2015,
Lieutenant Colonel Dag Henriksen.
of the RNoAF
Major General Per Egil Rygg
12:15-12:30
Jonas Gahr Støre was the Secretary General
of the Norwegian Red Cross (2003-2005). He was
the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs (20052012) and Minister of Health and Care Services
(2012-2013). He is currently the leader of the
Norwegian Labour Party and a member of the
Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee.
Fyodor Lukyanov is editor in chief of the
journal Russia in Global Affairs, Chairman of
Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense
Policy.
Dr. Julie Wilhelmsen is a senior researcher at
the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
(NUPI). She delivered her PhD on the Chechen–
Russian conflict (“When Global Conflict fuels local
war”) at the University in Oslo, and she has edited
the book (2011) “Russia's Encounter with
Globalization. Actors, Processes and Critical
Moments”.
Siri Lill Mannes is a former news anchor
(TV2) and news correspondent in Russia and
Chechnya. She speaks Russian and has spent
substantial amount of time in Russia and the
surrounding nations of the former Soviet Union.
She has won national awards for her journalism,
and in 2003 she published the book: Bodyguard in
hell – Aleksandr and the war in Chechnya.
Seminar Opening.
Introduction
Lieutenant Colonel Dag Henriksen
12:30-13:00
Opening Speech
Jonas Gahr Støre
13:00-13:30
What are Russia’s Foreign Policy
Ambitions?
Fyodor Lukyanov
13:30 – 13:50
Coffee
13:50 – 14:20
How to Explain the Dynamics of
Russia’s Foreign Policy?
Dr. Julie Wilhelmsen
14:20-14:25
5 min leg-strech
14:25-15:10
Panel discussion, Q&A:
Are Russia on the offensive or on the
defensive? Do we see a new Russia?
15:10 – 15:40
Epilogue
Siri Lill Mannes
19:00
Informal gathering in the Royal
Norwegian Air Force Academy’s
Officers’ Mess.
Wednesday 4. February 2015
Dr. Peter Mattson works at the Swedish
National Defence College in Stockholm. He
has studied Russian military strategy and
doctrines for a sustained period of time.
Dr. Lars Peder Haga works at the
Airpower Department at the Royal
Norwegian Air Force Academy in Trondheim.
Haga speaks fluent Russian and has studied
Russian culture and history for a sustained
period of time.
Assistant Professor Ann Karin
Larssen works at the Airpower Department
at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy in
Trondheim. Larssen has studied political
science and teaches Russian defense and
foreign policy at the RNoAF Academy.
The perspective from the Baltics (…)We do
not have a candidate thus far, but are
searching for someone in the political/
military/academic sphere of influence.
Major General Michael Bydén is the
Chief of Staff of the Swedish Air Force.
Colonel Jaak Tarien is a graduate of the
United States Air Force Academy, earned his
Master’s degree from the Air Command and
Staff College of the USAF Air University, and
graduated from the Higher Command
Studies Course at the Baltic Defence College.
He has been serving as Chief of Staff of the
Estonian Air Force since 2009.
Lieutenant
General
(r)
David
Tevzadze has a Ph.D. from the Georgian
Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy,
and has NATO education from NATO
Defence College in Rome. He was Minister of
Defense in Georgia from April 1998 to
February 2004.
Captain Helge Øglænd is a Norwegian
fighter pilot with 1300 hours in the F-16. He
has served in the Royal Norwegian Air Force
since 2000, and participated in Operation
Unified Protector, Libya, in 2011. He is
currently a cadet at the RNoAF Academy.
Russian Military Strategy – and the
Perspectives on Russia seen from
the outside.
08:30 – 08:40
The RNoAF Band
08:40 – 08:45
Opening remarks
Associate Professor Øistein Espenes
08:45 – 09:10
Russian Military Strategy and
Doctrine
Dr. Peter Mattson
09:10 – 09:35
Russian Airpower
Dr. Lars Peder Haga
09:35 – 09:55
Coffee
09:55 – 10:20
Russia, Norway, and the High
North
Assist. Professor Ann Karin Larssen
10:20 – 10:45
Panel, Q&A
10:45 – 10:50
Information parallel lunch-session
11:00-12:30
Lunch & Parallel lectures/sessions
Lecture A: Russian military air
activity in the north. Norwegian
Defence Force’s Operational HQ
Lecture B: Russian military
activity in the Baltic Sea. Major
General Michael Bydén
Lecture C: Russia seen from the
Baltics. Colonel Jaak Tarien
Lecture D: Lessons from Ukraine
2013-2014. TBD
Lecture E: Lessons from Georgia
2008. Lieutenant General (r) David
Tevzadze
Lecture F: Russian nuclear
strategy after the Cold War.
Captain Helge Øglænd
Damon Wilson is executive vice
president of the Atlantic Council, serving as
both a thought leader and manager with
responsibility for strategy and strategic
initiatives. From 2007 to 2009, Wilson
served as special assistant to the president
and senior director for European affairs at
the National Security Council.
Catherine Ashton is a British Labour
politician who was the High Representative of
the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security
Policy for the European Union from 2009 to
2014. Under the Treaty of Lisbon, this post is
combined with the post of Vice-President of
the European Commission.
Dr. Stefanie Babst was born in Kiel,
Germany, and holds a Ph.D. in Political
Science from Christian-Albrechts-University/
Kiel and Harvard University. She was an
Assistant Professor at the Institute of
Political
Science/Christian-AlbrechtsUniversity/Kiel (1991-1992), and Lecturer of
Russian and East European Studies at the
Federal Armed Forces Command & General
Staff College, Hamburg (1993-1998). She is
currently NATOs Acting Assistant Secretary
General for Public Diplomacy.
Dr. Tor Bukkvoll
is from
a researcher
at the
Russia Seen
the USA
Norwegian Defence
Research
Establishment
Damon Wilson
(FFI). He has studied the political and
military development in Russia and the
Ukraine since the mid-1990s. He speaks
fluent Russian and Ukrainian, and has spent
long periods in both countries.
12:30-13:00
Russia seen from USA
Damon Wilson
13:00-13:30
Russia seen from the EU
Catherine Ashton
13:30-14:00
Russia seen from NATO
Dr. Stefanie Babst
14:00-14:30
Coffee
14:30-15:15
Panel discussion, Q&A
15:15-15:45
Epilogue
Tor Bukkvoll
18:30 – 24:00
Mess Dinner in the Royal Norwegian Air
Force Academy’s Officers’ Mess.
Thursday 5. February 2015
Lieutenant General (r) Freek Meulman
was Deputy Commander Air at ISAF
Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2007
to 2008. In 2008, Major General Meulman was
appointed the Netherlands Deputy Chief of
Defense and was promoted to Lieutenant
General. Between 2010 and 2013, he was the
Netherlands Permanent Military Representative to NATO and the EU Military Committee in
Brussels. Meulman is now leading the project
Future Vector Programme, which is focusing on
the development of European airpower
towards 2040.
Major General Per Egil Rygg’s
background is from the Norwegian F-16
community. He has a broad operational
background, amongst other assignments, as
Head of the Command Group Liaison Element at
Joint Force Command/Lisbon (2005-2007). He
is now the Chief of Staff of the Royal Norwegian
Air Force (2014 --).
Consequences for Norwegian
Airpower?
08:30 – 08:40
Short information related to a new
scholarship in airpower
Captain Carl Waldemar Wilhelmsen
08:40 – 08:45
Opening remarks
Major Freddy Moland
08:45 – 09:15
Russia, NATO, and the Airpower
Challenges toward 2040
Lieutenant General (r) Freek Meulman
09:15 – 09:40
Airpower in the High North – the Way
Ahead?
Major General Per Egil Rygg
Brigadier General Jan Ove Rygg’s
background is from the Norwegian F-16
community. He has a broad operational
background, amongst other assignments, six
years in NATO CAOCs, and he served in OUP
CFACC at CAOC Poggio Renatico as Director
Operations (2011). Brigadier General Rygg
assumed responsibility as Head of the
Norwegian National Air Operations Centre
(NAOC) 1. August 2014.
09:40 – 10:00
Coffee
10:00 – 10:25
Russia, Norwegian Crisis Management
Lieutenant Colonel John Olav Birkeland
has an operational background from the MPA
(Orion) community at Andøya, Norway. He has
three Masters degrees: from the University of
Tromsø (Political Science); University of
Glasgow (Military science and history); Air
Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB.
(Military Operational Art & Science). Today he
works at the NATO Allied Maritime Command
(MARCOM) at Northwood, UK.
10:25 – 10:45
Anniken Huitfeldt is an experienced
politician from the Norwegian Labour Party.
She has been Minister of Children and Equality
(2008-2009); Minister of Culture (2009-2012);
and Minister of Labour (2012-2013). She is
currently the Leader of the Parliament’s
Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee (2013 -).
and the Establishment of the new
National Air Operations Centre (NAOC) –
Norwegian Airpower in a National
Perspective.
Brigadier General Jan Ove Rygg
Norwegian Airpower – Are We Debating
the Right Issues in the Right Manner?
Lieutenant Colonel John Olav Birkeland
10:45 – 11:30
Panel Debate
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch
12:30-13:00
Seminar Epilogue:
Anniken Huitfeldt
13:00-13:15
Closing Remarks.
Major General Per Egil Rygg