ABSTRACT
The objective of this segment of the preparedness for occupation was partly to secure important sites and communications within free Norwegian territory under a partial occupation of the country, but mainly to prepare and carry out sabotage in occupied areas against Norwegian industrial plants which might be of use to the enemy. The philosophy behind Rocambole (ROC) was clearly based on the lessons learnt during the German occupation a few years earlier. The strategic background for NATOs interest in occupation preparedness in a broader European context was similar to that of the Norwegians namely an awareness that a Soviet offensive against Western Europe, under the then prevailing balance of power in the early 1950s, could probably not be stopped until most of NATOs member countries had fallen to Soviet occupation. The sense of crisis in the autumn of 1950 was first and foremost marked by the Korean War.
