A recent visit to Lithuania by US Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, during which the Americans pledged to support the formation of a regional air defence architecture by deploying air defence elements in the region for training, underscores Washington‘s commitments to Baltic defence, DELFI reports. […]
Signing of the contract on the purchase of German infantry fighting vehicles Boxer for Lithuanian Armed Forces has been postponed until August from the original plan to sign the document in July. […]
Croatia will send soldiers to a German-led multinational battalion that will be deployed to Lithuania next year, the country’s president said in Vilnius on Thursday.
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Lithuania is planning to contribute the first group of six military instructors to the US-led international operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq in early 2017, the Ministry of National Defence says.
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US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that, if he were elected president, the United States might not come to the defence of the Baltic states if they were attacked by Russia. […]
Lithuania is to spend 1.79% of its GDP on defence next year, according to the draft budget for 2017.
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Lithuanian warship M53 Skalvis began a shift in the NATO Response Force last week.
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Colonel Remigijus Baltrėnas has become Lithuania’s new military intelligence chief, replacing Colonel Alvydas Šiuparis who is leaving for the United States to take up his new post as defence attaché.
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Russia keep stepping up its military presence in Eastern Europe and will proceed with the plans regardless of what NATO does, says Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee.
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The likelihood of terrorist attacks in Lithuania remains unchanged, with no data available on planned attacks, says Darius Jauniškis, the director of the State Security Department. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė promoted Colonel Valdemaras Rupšys to brigadier general before he takes the command of the country’s Land Forces later on Friday.
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The Russia-NATO Council will meet today in Brussels for only the second time in two years but many are pessimistic about making real progress as tensions have been rising in the Baltics and Eastern Europe. […]
NATO now sees Russia as a bigger threat than the so-called Islamic State, according to a senior Lithuanian government adviser. […]
Lithuania has opened a new National Cyber Security Centre in Vilnius under the authority of the Ministry of Defence that will be responsible for protecting the country’s cyber security and containing attacks.
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United States President Barack Obama and 27 other NATO leaders meet in Warsaw today for what many believe is its most important meeting in a generation as the alliance considers how it can transform itself to face a raft of new threats, from a newly aggressive Russia, to Islamic extremism.
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NATO is expected to approve plans to deploy a 1,000-strong multinational battalion to Lithuania during its summit in Poland on Friday – but what are its current capabilities in Lithuania? […]
On the back of a major increase in defence spending in the last year, Lithuania has made it into top 10 NATO countries for defence spending. […]
About 100 used military Mercedes-Benz GD SUVs are being transported from the Netherlands to Lithuania in the next two weeks. […]
A Russian intelligence officer charged with spying and attempting to bug the offices and home of Lithuania’s president will face trial at Vilnius Regional Court, the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office said on Friday.
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Russia has fired the top military commanders of its Baltic Fleet, which is based at Kaliningrad, in an unprecedented move.
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