defence

Around 400 Lithuanian troops this month are starting their standby duty in the NATO Response Force (NRF) and the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), the Defence Ministry said on Monday.

Processes proceeding far from Lithuania and right by its borders lead to the conclusion that challenges to national security have not disappeared. Today it is hard to predict how things will proceed thus national defence is one of the priorities of national security policy.

At a meeting with United States senators visiting Vilnius on Thursday, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė emphasized the country's role to trans-Atlantic security.

Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the ta...

Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis supports the re-introduction of military training at schools, an idea raised by Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU).

A general reserve of national defence should be prepared in Lithuania's education institutions, namely, schools and universities, says the ruling Peasant and Green Union's leader Ramūnas Karbauskis who heads the parliamentary Culture Committee.

2017 could be the year of Russia’s return – the signs of this were discussed in a Tuesday afternoon discussion organised by the the Eastern Europe Studies Centre (RESC) and VU TSPMI. The political scientists discussed the topic of “What will decide Russian foreign policy in 2017?” It is likely that ...

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has received assurances from US President-elect Donald Trump's national security adviser that the US will maintain strong economic and defence links with Lithuania.

It is understandable why at the end of this year political analysts raise questions from evermore acute angles. Edward Lucas for one has expressed fears as to whether NATO will withstand Donald Trump’s administration or if the European Union can still be saved.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Thursday briefed ambassadors of European Union (EU) member-states residing in Vilnius on the foreign policy course of the new 17 th government, accentuating that consistency, activeness and continuity would be key in the area.

Amid changes in the United States administration, a group of Lithuanian MPs said after returning from a visit to the US that Lithuania should raise funding for maintaining ties with the strategic partner and making of new contacts. They say the regional priority should be cooperation with the neighb...

Lithuania's Defence Ministry has signed a contract with Swedish company SAAB Dynamics on the purchase of the RBS70 simulators, which will be used to train troops.

Exactly 75 years ago the USA experienced a blow which would change the course of history. Making use of all its capacities the US learned from history and entered the war against a totalitarian regime by… making an alliance with another totalitarian regime. Later followed victory and… Yalta.

The Lithuanian military is buying 168 armored personnel carriers from Germany for around 1.6 million euros in total.

Candidate for Lithuania's defence minister, diplomat Raimundas Karoblis, supports the idea of introducing mandatory conscription to the Armed Forces.

Lithuania's outgoing Defence Minister Juozas Olekas assured Ukraine's Chief of Defence Viktor Muzhenko that Lithuania's attention to the Ukrainian Armed Forces would remain at the same level next year.

The deployment by Russia of new missiles in its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad is aimed at restricting access for NATO allies' ships to the Baltic countries, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said.

If you type the word “hybrid” into the Google search machine, you will get a rather likely result – the term “hybrid car”. Only later Google will include such terms, as “hybrid warfare” and “hybrid threats”. In general, hybrid means a thing made by combining two or many different elements, mixed. So...

The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) coalition’s “Harmonious Lithuanian Cabinet” programme project only dedicated its very last comments to foreign and defence policy – 10 pages of 117. While the new government does not propose any earthshatt...