The commander of the United States Forces Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, will attend a conference on NATO’s strength, defence and deterrence, in Vilnius on Monday ahead of the NATO Summit in Warsaw. […]
The Czech Republic plans to send a company-sized military unit to the Baltic States in 2017. […]
Lithuania’s minister of national defence has confirmed that the country may send up to 30 military instructors to Iraq as part of a US-led mission to fight the Islamic State. […]
Germany is to send more troops to Lithuania, the influential German news magazine Der Spiegel reports. “Due to requests from Eastern partners, NATO will send more troops to the border of Russia,” reports Der Spiegel, […]
Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas opened NATO week in Kiev on Monday and agreed to bring 11 wounded Ukrainian soldiers to Lithuania for rehabilitation. Olekas also met with Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak and discussed […]
On his visit to the United States this week, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas was assured by US politicians that Congress will approve the $3.4-billion-USD European Reassurance Initiative for 2017, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
The United States will increase its military presence in Eastern Europe by deploying an additional armoured brigade in the area to deter Russian aggression. […]
It has been 12 years to the day since Lithuania joined NATO. Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas spoke today about how the Lithuanian government and the Alliance itself are coming to understand the threat that the Baltic states face. […]
The first batch of upgraded communications equipment procured by Lithuania as part of the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI) and other foreign assistance funds was delivered to Karmelava Airport in central Lithuania on Wednesday. […]
Despite the recommendations for the introduction of permanent conscription, Lithuanian conscripts will constitute only a small part of Lithuania’s total armed forces – about one-sixth – with the rest recruited as professional soldiers, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas told Žinių radijas. […]
The State Defence Council, summoned by President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday, is to decide whether Lithuania should keep military conscription indefinitely. […]
Diverging views on poetry has become an issue of a heated debate on history and censorship after Lithuania’s minister of defence denied a state award to an author whose analysis of the Soviet past did not match the minister’s own opinion. At the centre of the controversy is the poet Justinas Marcinkevičius whose name, for many, is synonymous with the country’s independence movement. […]
The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s statements about a second Cold War and Moscow‘s talk of cooperation have to be seen as cover for its military actions in Syria and Ukraine, said Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
Defence ministers of NATO countries on Wednesday endorsed plans to step up the Alliance’s military presence in Eastern Europe in response to Russia‘s actions, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said. […]
Over the past few years Lithuania has been buying plenty of new weaponry for its armed forces, but the purchase of ammunition reserves to go with them has not kept pace. […]
Analysis published by US analysts, suggesting that NATO should step up the military security of the Baltic states, is a “good warning for the Allies,” says Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
After official announcement of the US plans to quadruple its defence budget for Europe, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas says this would mean deployment of a larger number of US troops and equipment in Lithuania. […]
About 67% of the Lithuanian population fully or in part agree on the need to increase defence funding to 2% of the gross domestic product (GDP), shows a poll published by the Ministry of National Defence. […]
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