NATO Commanders Teamed Up with Newcomer Sweden at Northern Border with Russia

Amid rising tensions with Russia, NATO strengthens its northern security cooperation. Never before have there been more high-ranking commanders from the UK, Spain, Sweden and Norway on Norway’s border to the strategically important Kola Peninsula. “I’m very happy about the political decision to become a part of NATO,” says Lieutenant general Carl-Johan Edström, Chief of Joint Operations with the Swedish Armed Forces. On Thursday, he flew north together with the largest group of top NATO officers that ever has been at Norway’s land border with Russia.     “Now we can be a part of a huge NATO organization and…