Lithuania is ready to send several military instructors to Iraq to train local forces fighting ISIS jihadists, the country’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Wednesday. […]
Although the real gunshots are echoing from Ukraine, which is thousands of kilometres away from Lithuania, the echoes of warfare in our country’s cyberspace are heard loud and clear and, unfortunately, are likely to get even more so. So says Kaunas University of Technology Professor Algimantas Venčkauskas. […]
A ship carrying heavy military equipment of US troops will dock at the Lithuania seaport of Klaipėda on Wednesday. The equipment will be used for a joint exercise with Lithuanian soldiers. […]
Up to 100 Lithuanian soldiers will serve in the NATO mission in Afghanistan next year, training Afghan forces, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania plans to double the number of young men enlisted to undergo basic military training next year. And if the necessary target of volunteers is not met, the chief of defence of Lithuania does not discount the possibility of suggesting to politicians to restore conscription. […]
Around 70 US infantry troops with heavy combat equipment have arrived in Lithuania, the Baltic country’s Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
The third rotation of troops from the United States Army in Europe’s 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade were seen off at a formal ceremony held at Rukla garrison last Wednesday. After nearly two months of combined combat training, it will be replaced by the 2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, stationed in Texas, U.S.A., that will continue the joint training with Lithuanian forces, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
National defence funding will be increased by 400 million litas (over EUR 115 million) next year, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Friday after the ruling coalition’s Friday discussion of the 2015 national budget. […]
On 23-24 September NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) General Adrian Bradshaw paid a visit to the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania. […]
A Lithuanian-led group who trained helicopter pilots and helicopter technical maintenance personnel of the Afghan National Army has finished their mission. […]
The Lithuanian State Security Department has issued a warning about a significant surge in Russian intelligence activities in both Lithuania and other countries. The Department has even published a booklet, explaining ordinary citizens the aims and methods of foreign intelligence agencies. […]
Chief of Defence of Lithuania, Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas, expressed his delight with interesting and intense discussions on further NATO’s actions in response to the changed international security situation when summarizing the results of NATO Military Committee Conference 2014 in Vilnius, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius presented on Saturday Lithuania’s proposals to the top US military officer on ways to implement plans on additional military measures the Alliance is taking in response to Russia‘s aggression in Ukraine. […]
International headquarters will be founded in the Baltic states, Poland and Romania, which will be directly subordinate to NATO leadership and will take care of the training of incoming Allied troops, Lithuania’s Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said on Friday. […]
A meeting of chiefs of defense of NATO member-states is starting in Vilnius on Friday to address efforts to step up security in Eastern Europe and the future of the mission in Afghanistan. […]
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