Patrick J. Cullen

US-Norway Bilateral Defense Agreements: a partnership that strengthens NATO

Forsvarssamarbeidet mellom USA og Norge utgjør en helt sentral del av vårt nasjonale forsvar i en eventuell militær konflikt. Store deler av dette samarbeidet består av bilaterale avtaler som legger rammene for hvordan amerikanerne skal kunne komme oss til unnsetning i krisetid. Helt siden andre verdenskrig har disse avtalene, i mye større grad enn hva som kommer frem i offentligheten, dannet ryggraden også i NATOs rammeverk. Omfanget og utviklingen i det bilaterale forsvarssamarbeidet viser at avtalene er limet som gjør at også det multilaterale og kollektive forsvaret av Norge henger sammen til et troverdig hele.

A Century of US Diplomatic Security: An Evolutionary Response to a Changing Threat Environment

This chapter traces nearly 100 years of US Diplomatic Security from its pre-WWI origins up to the Obama Administration, describing the key drivers of its qualitative and quantitative expansion through the Cold War into the post 9-11 world. It offers a detailed breakdown of the various roles and missions of the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, as well as the ancillary diplomatic security role played by the US military.

Å varsle om hybride trusler

Hybrid Warfare Early Warning and Detection. It discusses history of warnning intelligence and why and how hybrid warfare creates new challenges for warning intelligence. It also briefly reviews four concise case studies on real-world expermentation on detecting hybrid threats.

The Rebalance to Asia Under Trump

Attempts to predict the future shape of President Donald Trump’s defence policy in the Asia-Pacific are a challenge, at best. Nevertheless, Patrick Cullen argues that, in contrast to early assumptions that he would initiate a more isolationist defence policy and break with the previous administration’s Rebalance to Asia policy, Trump is more likely to adopt a hawkish – if unpredictable – enforcement of the policy’s key defence objectives. Gauging whether the Trump administration will bring either change from, or continuity with, the military component of the Rebalance to Asia policy will require keeping an eye on each of the policy’s subcategories.

What is Hybrid Warfare?

The long, short, and breadth of it: mapping the Pentagon's rebalance to Asia