5:15pm, Room 203, 10 University Gardens (chaired by Professor Beatrice Heuser)

Col Dr John Andreas Olsen is the Norwegian Defence Attaché to the UK. He is director in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, head of section for security policy analyses, colonel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force and visiting professor at the Swedish Defence University. He was the deputy commander and chief of the NATO Advisory Team at NATO Headquarters, Sarajevo, from 2009 to 2012.

Professor Olsen is the author of Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm (2003) and John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power (2007); coauthor of Destination NATO: Defence Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003‒2013 (2013); editor of On New Wars (2006), A History of Air Warfare (2010), Global Air Power (2011), Air Commanders (2012), European Air Power (2014) and Airpower Reborn (2015); and co-editor of The Evolution of Operational Art (2011) and The Practice of Strategy (2012).

All welcome.

First published: 21 October 2019

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