Established in 2023, Nordic Defence Review (NDR) is an independent publication, focused on defence and security issues as viewed from Northern Europe. The publisher of NDR is Kravat Oy.
More than 50,000 Unique Readers Per Month
In March 2026 alone, NDR recorded 50,906 unique visitors. (Image: Creative Commons)
Two Million Hits in Q1/2026
- Unique visitors: 128,391
- Number of visits: 226,007
- Pages: 486,364
- Hits: 1,970,412
These numbers do not include traffic generated by robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes.
Academic and Professional Citations
- Taylor & Francis Online: An article titled “Ensuring security of supply: pragmatic defence autarky…” references NDR in its analysis of defense supply chains and autarky strategies (Reference no. 40)
- Economics and Econometrics Research Institute EERI (Brussels): The study “Enhancing the preparedness and readiness” references NDR in its discussion on strategic challenges toward 2030. (Page 27)
- RUSI (Royal United Services Institute): In the report “Winning the Industrial War: Comparing Russia, Europe, and Ukraine 2022–24,” NDR is cited for insights into ammunition production in Nordic countries. (page 34)
- International Problems (Beograd): International Problems academic journal No 3 (2025) Vol LXXVII (page 138)
- Rochester Institute of Technology: Exploring Kosovo’s Need for a Technology-Driven Offset Strategy by Alba Cikaqi (pages 35 and 37)
- Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) (Copenhagen): North-eastern flank: Militarisation of the Baltic frontier (page 70)
- Contributions to Security and Defence Studies ((CSDS)) / SpringerLink: Cautious Data-Driven Evolution: Defence AI in Finland by Sami O. Järvinen as part of the publication The Very Long Game – 25 Case Studies on the Global State of Defense AI (Page 172)
- Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission: European Defence Readiness1 by d’Artis Kancs (page 31)
- Australian Naval Institute: Australian Naval Review 01/2024 (page 49)
Editor-In-Chief / Publisher
MSc. (Pol) Jan Erola (b. 1969, London) is a former journalist and book publisher. He has published more than 350 books, including dozens of military history books in Finnish by top historians, such as John Keegan and Lasse Laaksonen. Erola is a former program director of the Helsinki Book Fair and the founder of Kravat Oy, a Communications Agency.
He has been a regular news commentator on YLE TV1’s live weekly morning show Jälkiviisaat (“In Hindsight”) since 2000, hundreds of times.
Here is a sample of works that Erola was responsible for publishing during his time in the book publishing industry in Finland from 2004 to 2014.
