Volunteers have already filled almost a third of conscription places as Lithuania plans to issue lists of conscripts next week, the country’s Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
Two new military facilities will be built near Vilnius, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence has proposed increasing the marginal numbers of troops of professional military service by 1,300 soldiers next year, with the minimum number of troops to be raised by about 500. […]
Deividas Šlekys, military expert and lecturer at Vilnius University, discusses the nature of warfare and how it has transformed under liberal democracy. […]
NATO air policing fighter-jets were on Tuesday scrambled from a base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, to accompany a Russian transport airplane en route to the Kaliningrad region. […]
Nine people representing seven Lithuanian organisations will observe on 11 May how military draft lists are compiled. […]
The headquarters of a new motorized infantry brigade will be situated in the Lithuanian western port of Klaipėda in 2016, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says. It will be a second brigade in the Lithuanian army. […]
Mobilization check has revealed that nine out of 10 reserve troops would be fit for military service in Lithuania, the army’s representatives said. […]
Lithuania has banned wearing separate elements of military uniforms and insignia in public. The provision was incorporated into amendments to the Law on the Organisation of the National Defence System and Military Service and the accompanying legislation. […]
The Lithuanian army is on Thursday testing its mobilization system. […]
The Lithuanian army will hold exercises to improve interoperability of Lithuanian institutions without the assistance of NATO allies, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said on Tuesday, presenting the upcoming national Exercise Lighting Strike 2015. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces expect to receive artillery systems from Germany in 2016. […]
Four in five conscripts to be recruited this year will serve in the Land Forces of the Lithuanian Army, the army said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania made international headlines last week when its Radio and Television Commission decided to institute a blanket ban on all programmes of a Russian TV channel. The channel in question, RTR Planeta, is registered in Sweden, but its content is entirely Russian-produced. The Commission had previously suspended broadcasts of individual programmes, saying they violated Lithuanian laws, but RTR Planeta would not stop. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Friday that over the last two weeks a total of 206 citizens had volunteered to sign up for a 9-month military service, including 9 women. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces cannot do without conscripts, they are needed all the time, not for five years only, says opposition leader Andrius Kubilius. […]
The decision of the Lithuanian Seimas to re-introduce conscription was welcome. It was a crucial step not only because of the growing geopolitical threat but more importantly because it builds a healthy, solid and Western society and a state that has confidence in itself. […]
The Lithuanian army‘s Logistics Board handed over about 500,000 munitions for automatic weapons to the police at an arsenal in Linkaičiai on Thursday. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces is Thursday starting to send out induction papers to reserve soldiers for one-day mobilization exercise to check the performance of the mobilization system. […]
Parents, spouses and employers should be put under the obligation of handing conscription papers to persons liable to military duty, Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said in one of the proposals to the parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday. […]
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