Baltic Sea Security: Today and Tomorrow

Rear Admiral Jens Nykvist is the Chief of Staff to the Royal Swedish Navy. 

His background is within the Swedish Submarine Force. He has worked in several positions on-board submarines and was the CO of the submarine HSwMS Gotland, when it was stationed in San Diego, USA. RADM Nykvist was also in charge of the Swedish Contingent during HSwMS Gotland second year in the U.S working at Third Fleet.

He is a graduate of the Command College in Stockholm 2007-2009. After the Command College he worked as the Chief of Staff at the Submarine Flotilla. In 2011 he worked in the HQ as ACOS at the Joint Strategy and Operational Staff. From 2012-2013, he was a student at the Naval Command College (NCC 2013), Newport, USA and then he became head of Naval Operations at J3 Joint Strategy and Operational Staff.

In December 2013, he was promoted to CAPT (N) and Commander 1st Submarine Flotilla. From April until September 2015 he worked as Chief of Staff in EU NAVFOR FHQ Operation Atalanta in Somali Basin/Gulf of Aden. When returning back home he continued as Commander 1st Submarine Flotilla.
4 May 2016 Chief of Staff Royal Swedish Navy and promoted to Rear Admiral.

RADM Nykvist also holds an MA in international Relations from Salve Regina University, Newport, USA.

Dr. Gary John Schaub Jr is a defense and national security expert located in Copenhagen, Denmark. As a tenured Senior Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies of the University of Copenhagen, my colleagues and I conduct research-based consultancy work for the Danish Ministry of Defence and the Defence Committee of Parliament as well as scholarly research on international security issues.

Schaub previously had been an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Leadership at the U.S. Air War College, a Research Fellow at the U.S. Air Force's Research Institute, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the U.S. Air Force's School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, and a Lecturer in History at Chatham College.

Schaub's research agenda at the University of Copenhagen since 2012 has been primarily determined by the topics requested by the Danish Ministry of Defence.  He has authored or contributed to reports and projects on hybrid maritime warfare; autonomous weapon systems; the Royal Danish Air Force's experience with the F-16 fighter jet; the transformation of European airpower; the development and integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or "drones") into the Danish, French, British, Canadian, and American militaries; the arms control architecture of Eurasia; the interests of Asian countries in the Arctic; cooperation between international organizations in complex emergencies in east Africa; multinational military education; multinational procurement of military hardware; and the demographics of the Danish armed forces.

Beyond these research-based consultancy services, Schaub has conducted research into the state's loss of its monopoly over the legitimate use of force by contributing to and editing a collection of essays on private military and security contractors (Private Military & Security Contractors: Controlling the Corproate Warrior (Rowman & Littlefield 2016), assessing state actor intentions within deterrence theory, and the demographics of the American military.

He has also been consulted by the US Office fo the Secretary of Defense with regard to the professional development of US military officers.

Jeremy Stöhs is an Austrian-American defense analyst at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University (ISPK) and its adjunct Center for Maritime Strategy & Security. He is also a non-resident fellow of the Austrian Center for Intelligence, Propaganda & Security Studies (ACIPSS). Jeremy has studied in Austria, Germany, and the United States, holds a master’s degree in history and English, and teaches at the University of Kiel where he is currently pursuing his PhD. on the evolution of European naval power since the end of the Cold War. He has written articles and chapters on various defense and security related issues and is the author of the book: The Decline of European Naval Forces: Challenges to Sea Power in an Age of Fiscal Austerity and Political Uncertainty (Naval Institute Press, 2018). Prior to his studies, Jeremy worked in law enforcement with the Austrian Federal Police for a number of years.