Lithuania needs a bigger defence budget to ensure cyber security and prepare for universal military conscription, says Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence, which has recently called on political parties to commit to increasing defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP in 2020. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis supports lawmakers’ proposal to update a defense policy agreement among political parties to include a commitment to gradually increase defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP in 2020. […]
The first troops of the international Allied battalion should arrive in Lithuania next week, army officials said in Rukla on Wednesday. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee has decided to initiate update of the agreement reached among political parties on defence spending. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday adopted an updated National Security Strategy that identifies 14 dangers, threats and risks. […]
Lithuania and the United States signed on Tuesday an agreement on the status of US troops on Lithuanian territory. […]
The Lithuanian State Defence Council on Monday approved the country’s intelligence needs and priorities for this year. […]
Lithuania and the United States will Tuesday sign an agreement on the status of US troops in the country, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said. […]
The Lithuanian State Security Department is discarding the building in Antaviliai near Vilnius that was investigated as a suspected secret detention centre of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). […]
The Lithuanian State Defence Council is holding a meeting on Monday where top officials of the country and heads of intelligence institutions should discuss and approve needs and priorities of intelligence information for this year. […]
A Šiauliai court on Friday finished hearings in an espionage trial of a former Lithuanian officer and a Russian citizen whom prosecutors want sentenced to six and 13 years in prison, respectively. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, says that the modern world is being accustomed to medieval-style international relations where a small-scale nuclear war is permissible. […]
The first troops of the German-led NATO forward presence battalion are expected to arrive in Lithuania in late January, the Defence Ministry said. […]
Speaking about the date of introducing universal conscription in Lithuania is still too early, says Chief of Defence Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the country should introduce universal military conscription during the government’s current term of office. […]
Lithuanian Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis is planning to establish a separate agency to coordinate military purchases, saying that centralization would help ensure better controls. […]
The Lithuanian Defence Ministry published on Monday this year’s military conscription lists. […]
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