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The Norway-hosted drill, dubbed Cold Response, is a recurring exercise involving cold-weather operations. It is slated to see elevated Finnish and Swedish roles along with a name change to Nordic Response, a Norwegian defense official accompanying Defence Minister Bj\u00f8rn Arild Gram to Washington told reporters earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Central to the new thinking is a desire to view the territories of Norway, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/06\/02\/how-sweden-and-finland-could-reshape-natos-northern-security\/\">Sweden and Finland<\/a> \u2014 and to some extent the other two countries considered part of the Nordic region, Denmark and Iceland \u2014 more holistically in defense plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While such thinking has been in the works for a while, prospective membership of all five Nordic nations in NATO has spurred new ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe already have a good cooperation on [a] broad basis, also on defense, but still: All in the same alliance will be something different,\u201d Gram told reporters Sept. 21 following a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is still an awareness of different regional priorities across the contiguous land mass forming the Scandinavian Peninsula, Gram said. So casting Finland as the leader on land forces, owing to its long border with Russia, while having Norway focus on naval capabilities would be too simplistic of a view, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a cross-cutting view of the geography could highlight second-order effects previously not seen, he argued. \u201cWhat happens in one area can affect the other,\u201d he noted, citing as examples Sweden\u2019s and Finland\u2019s Baltic Sea orientation as well as Norway\u2019s long western exposure to the North Atlantic\u2019s waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such an event entered global attention this week, days after Gram\u2019s trip to Washington, as several sections of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2021\/03\/31\/putins-pipeline-of-aggression-how-the-nord-stream-2-threatens-the-west\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines<\/a> through the Baltic Sea sprung leaks from what NATO has labeled sabotage. 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