Raimundas Karoblis
Defence

Minister of defence says universal service impossible if defence spending stops at 2 pct

Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis says that universal military conscription in Lithuania is only possible if the country spends more than 2 percent of its GDP on defense. […]

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European Union

Heritage Foundation analysts do not view EU’s new defence deal as very serious

The new defense integration deal signed by Lithuania and the rest of the European Union (EU) earlier this week will have new practical benefit, say analysts of the United States conservative public policy research centre Heritage Foundation. […]

Russian SU-27
Defence

NATO fighter-jets scrambled from Lithuania 6 times last week over Russian warplanes

Fighter-jets serving in the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states were last week scrambled six times to intercept Russian warplanes flying in the international space, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]

Vladimir Putin
CORPORATE

The Baltic states in Russian military strategy

Today, it is generally accepted inside NATO that the events of 2014 marked Russia‘s turn towards an avowedly revisionist course, whose ambit extends well beyond Ukraine itself. Were it not for Moscow’s justification of its […]