Full Name
Mikkel Storm Jensen
Job title
Military analyst, major, Ph.d.
Company
Royal Danish Defence College
Speaker Bio
PhD in Strategy and Offensive Cyberspace Operations, Major and Military Analyst at the Royal Danish Defence College's Institute for Strategy and War Studies
Primary Area of Work and Research
Mikkel Storm Jensen is employed as a military analyst at the Institute for Strategy and War Studies, where he researches cyber conflict and strategy, including the use of the cyber domain in interstate conflict and competition at the strategic level. He also focuses on the state's role in ensuring that society has sufficient resilience against cyberattacks and cyber incidents. His PhD addresses the strategic influence of offensive cyber capabilities ("cyber weapons") in military alliances and the challenges they pose to both small states and great powers within NATO. He has also followed Russia's cyberattacks on Ukraine since 2016 and the invasion in February 2022, as well as the conflicts in Syria and Iraq from a military perspective. In addition, he has experience with intelligence services and international intelligence cooperation.
Areas of Expertise
Cyber warfare, conflict, and strategy
Counterinsurgency (COIN)
Intelligence
The Middle East
Military strategy
Unconventional warfare
Ukraine: the cyber dimensions of the crisis and hybrid warfare
Primary Area of Work and Research
Mikkel Storm Jensen is employed as a military analyst at the Institute for Strategy and War Studies, where he researches cyber conflict and strategy, including the use of the cyber domain in interstate conflict and competition at the strategic level. He also focuses on the state's role in ensuring that society has sufficient resilience against cyberattacks and cyber incidents. His PhD addresses the strategic influence of offensive cyber capabilities ("cyber weapons") in military alliances and the challenges they pose to both small states and great powers within NATO. He has also followed Russia's cyberattacks on Ukraine since 2016 and the invasion in February 2022, as well as the conflicts in Syria and Iraq from a military perspective. In addition, he has experience with intelligence services and international intelligence cooperation.
Areas of Expertise
Cyber warfare, conflict, and strategy
Counterinsurgency (COIN)
Intelligence
The Middle East
Military strategy
Unconventional warfare
Ukraine: the cyber dimensions of the crisis and hybrid warfare
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