Tormod Heier is Lieutenant Colonel in the Norwegian Army and holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo. Heier is a Senior Faculty Adviser at the Norwegian Defence University College and Docent at the Swedish Defence University College in Stockholm. He has edited several anthologies on Norwegian and European security and defense policy. His latest anthology is Military Exercises: Political Messaging and Strategic Impact, coedited with Beatrice Heuser and Guillaume Lasconjaras (2017).