conscription

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 wit...

Linas Jakštas is the first conscript to start professional military service with Lithuania‘s airforce after finishing his compulsory military service. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuania's parliament, the Seimas, on Thursday passed a law making military conscription permanent. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

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.

Two soldiers from the Lithuanian Etmon Jonušas Radvila Training Detachment in Rukla were sent to Kaunas Hospital of Infectious Diseases.

Lithuanian conscript Martynas Jurkus died in a Lithuanian military hospital on Monday due to an acute infectious disease. Military representatives have denied allegations that the conscript's rapid deterioration in medical condition could have occurred due to unsuitable food, but an official medical...

A man performing the initial mandatory military service passed away in a Kaunas hospital on Monday morning.

In 2015, about a third of conscripts did not pass their military medical examinations. Why were a third of the conscripts turned away from the military, and is it possible to fool the military medical examination commission?

The reintroduction of military conscription for good in Lithuania is likely be approved by the Lithuanian parliament unanimously, said Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė of the Labour Party.

Almost half the positions of this year's military draft have already been filled by volunteers, according to Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence. If volunteers continue signing up at the present rate, there might not be any need to draft young men who have not come forward for the military serv...

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.

Mandatory initial military service should be reintroduced in Lithuania for good rather than for five years, the State Defence Council decided on Monday.

The State Defence Council, summoned by President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday, is to decide whether Lithuania should keep military conscription indefinitely.

“Dinner in the canteen: 'Oh look, there's cheese!' - a soldier exclaimed. 'No, its for the Americans,' the chef answered strictly” - this was an exchange shared by Lithuanian journalist Ignas Krupavičius, who is currently serving as a conscript in the Lithuanian army.

Liudvikas Jakavičius, a 31-year-old third-generation Lithuanian expatriate from Mexico, shares his experience of military service in the Lithuanian army.

One of the founders of the Lithuanian army has said the Defence Minister, Juozas Olekas’s position that a professional army is sufficient and conscription is not needed is irresponsible in current international conditions.

Jonas Valančiūnas, the Toronto Raptors center beloved by basketball fans both in Lithuania and abroad, made it into the conscription list as part of Lithuania's mandatory military conscription for 2016.

Demographic experts attacked Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius for saying that increased emigration from Lithuania was down to military conscription, pointing instead to low wages and long term emigration trends as the key reasons behind the increase.

Military conscription, which was reinstated in Lithuania last year, was one of the reasons behind a hike in emigration, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes.