John Andreas Olsen is a Colonel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force, currently assigned to London as Defence Attaché to the UK and Ireland.

He is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Studies, Washington, DC. His previous assignments include tours as Director of Security Analyses in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence; Deputy Commander and Chief of the NATO Advisory Team at the NATO Headquarters, Sarajevo; Dean of the Norwegian Defence University College; and Head of the College's Division for Strategic Studies. Olsen is

a graduate of the German Command and Staff College and has served both as liaison officer to the German Operational Command in Potsdam and as military assistant to the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. He has a

Doctorate in History and International Relations from De Montfort University, a Master's degree in Contemporary Literature from the University of Warwick and a Master's degree in English from the

University of Trondheim. He was a Visiting Professor at the Swedish National Defence University from 2008 to 2019.

Dr Olsen has lectured worldwide, received several awards and published many books. His recent publications have included Airpower Reborn: The Strategic Concepts of John Warden and John Boyd (2015); NATO and the North Atlantic: Revitalising Collective Defence (2017); Airpower Applied: US, NATO and Israeli Combat Experience (2017); The Routledge Handbook of Air Power (2018); and Security in Northern Europe: Deterrence, Defence and Dialogue (2018).