Two weeks before the NATO Summit in Vilnius, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius arrived in Lithuania on Monday. Together with President Gitanas Nausėda and Minister of National Defence Arvydas […]
The possible deployment of a German brigade and the disputes, anger and bickering that go along with it in Lithuania have been going on for half a year. Security and forward defence are such sore […]
The ever-renewed speeches of the country’s politicians that the ten-day period during which the entire German brigade should be deployed in Lithuania in the event of a crisis is not suitable for ensuring the country’s […]
The recent tension between Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas and the chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, Laurynas Kasčiūnas, should have subsided somewhat. Still, Kasčiūnas has made it quite clear […]
There are many signs that Russia’s resources are dwindling and the Kremlin is not generating new capabilities, Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas said on June 8. Nevertheless, the minister does not rule out that […]
Lieutenant Colonel Rene Braun of Germany will take over as commander of NATO’s multinational battalion in Lithuania in a ceremony on Thursday, the Defense Ministry said. […]
Many of us have probably encountered or at least have heard of an undisciplined next-door-neighbour with a fondness for drinking. Let us call him Vovochka (the Russian equivalent of “Little Johnny”, a diminutive form of […]
Darius Jauniškis, the director of the Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD), says that intelligence agencies are increasingly open to communication with the public as they cannot remain invisible services in this information age. […]
The election of Donald J. Trump as US President on November 7, 2016 has brought a year of living dangerously for the Baltic States, as the region nervously awaited the arrival of a new Republican […]
Luxembourg‘s troops are arriving in Lithuania on Monday to join the combat group of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence battalion stationed in Lithuania. […]
Norbert Lammert, president of Germany‘s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is coming to Lithuania this week, lzinios.lt news portal reported. […]
Reis opp, Tiden er inne! (Norwegian: “Get up, the time is now!”). Lt. Silje Johansen Willassen would use this slogan to motivate her 15 soldiers from the mechanized infantry company before battle, which is deployed […]
Yet another information attack has been launched against the German led international battalion stationed in Lithuania. Members of the Seimas Committee of National Security and Defence (NSGK) received letters presenting yet another fraudulent story – supposedly the head of the NATO contingent, Lt. Col. Christoph Huber is a Russian agent. […]
Several years ago German MEP Rebecca Harms did not think that specifically she will become one of the most outspoken critics of Vladimir Putin when it comes to questions of European security. Now, however, the […]
German Chief of Defence General Volker Wieker is coming on a two-day visit to Lithuania on Thursday. […]
“In order to reach 2% GDP defence spending, Germany would need to raise its defence spending by 20 billion euro. Do you fear that Germany will become a powerful military state?” BNS asks. Such was […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will Thursday award Germany’s Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen with a high state decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. […]
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