During the autumn session of the Seimas, the members of the National Security and Defence Committee (NSDC) will prioritise the issues of civil resistance courses and general conscription, according to the Chairman of the NSDC, […]
The first group of conscripts from this year’s draft call are starting on Thursday their mandatory initial military service, the Defense Ministry said. […]
In 2015, with the security environment on NATO‘s eastern frontiers deteriorating as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Lithuania made a rather sudden and dramatic decision to resume the mandatory military draft and thus […]
One-third of the Lithuanian population are in favor of introducing universal military service in the country, according to a survey carried out by the pollster RAIT for BNS. […]
The idea to implement universal military conscription has revealed the nation‘s sore. With Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announcing that universal conscription where all youths leaving school would be called to serve being potentially implemented from 2019, calculations have appeared that the number of those suitable to serve would only reach 6,000. […]
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. […]
Based on the implementation of Russian deterrence, a tank and AFV brigade from the United States has already reached Poland from where it will proceed to Lithuania. Despite Russian protests, this year a NATO battalion led by the German armed forces will be deployed in Lithuania. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has declared that universal compulsory military service could already be established during the Seimas term, that is to say within the coming 3.5 years. How would this work? Is universal compulsory […]
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. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis hopes that all recruits will join the country’s Armed Forces voluntarily this year. […]
Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis supports the re-introduction of military training at schools, an idea raised by Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU). […]
Should Lithuanian politicians decide to introduce general conscription, preparations would take at least four years and require more funding, experts say. […]
Almost a half of conscripts in Lithuania are willing to stay in the military after completing their mandatory service, the Ministry of National Defence says.
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When Lithuania reintroduced military conscription last year, politicians were throwing around promises of various benefits to sweeten the deal for the country’s youngsters who were suddenly facing nine months of military service. Some of them have found that these promises should have been taken with a grain of salt.
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Linas Jakštas is the first conscript to start professional military service with Lithuania‘s airforce after finishing his compulsory military service.
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Lithuania’s parliament, the Seimas, on Thursday passed a law making military conscription permanent.
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The first group of recruits who have completed the reintroduced mandatory nine-month military service was transferred to reserve in a solemn ceremony in Lithuania’s port city of Klaipėda on Saturday. […]
Lithuania’s government will decide what Lithuania’s military should look like in 6 years under new plans for defence spending. Military planning guidelines indicate that 4,000 mandatory basic service soldiers will complete their mandatory conscription every […]
Two soldiers from the Lithuanian Etmon Jonušas Radvila Training Detachment in Rukla were sent to Kaunas Hospital of Infectious Diseases. […]
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