In this episode of Today's Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Ine Eriksen Søreide discuss the future of U.S.–Norway cooperation in the High North, Russia’s threat across the Arctic and North Atlantic, and what it will take for Norway to protect critical infrastructure and preserve democratic resilience in this more dangerous European security environment.

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