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Lithuania buys additional NASAMS air defense missiles

2019-01-03 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

NASAMS

Lithuania has signed a contract to buy additional missiles for their new NASAMS air defense system. The system will be fully operational in 2021.

Filed Under: Air Force Tagged With: Lithuania

SOF supported guerrilla warfare is the realistic military scenario in the Baltic States

2018-01-24 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

This terrific article by James K. Wither is a must-read for everyone concerned with military strategy in the Baltic region. It is published in Small Wars Journal under the title ”Modern Guerrillas” and the Defense of the Baltic States. The best prospect to deter or if necessary defend an attack on the Baltic States remains […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Military Reserve

Cyber attack targeted Lithuanian defense minister

2018-01-19 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Defense minister Raimundas Karoblis and government institutions were the targets of a small cyber attack against Lithuania on Thursday. The attack consisted of three different elements. First institutions from the government, ministries, and embassies received emails containing an attached file with a virus. Then at 19.15 hackers took over the website tv3.lt and posted a […]

Filed Under: Cyber Warfare Tagged With: Lithuania

More US soldiers and Baltic Sea Policing Mission among ICDS recommendations for NATO

2018-01-16 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

How should the United States and NATO prioritize their resources to the Baltic States? That is the topic of this policy paper that Erik Marmei and Gabriel White have written for ICDS. The policy paper outlines a series of weaknesses with the defense in the Baltic States. It is pointed out that despite the fact […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, NATO

The Baltic nations would be hard to beat

2018-01-06 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

One of the things that I didn’t touch on in my description about how a war between Russia and the West will play out was the resistance that the populations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania would muster after a Russian occupation. That was a deliberate omission because you just can’t fit everything into one piece, […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Military Reserve

Maybe former Soviet republics don’t like to be Russia’s “sphere of interest”

2017-12-29 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Mikhail Barabanov in Moscow Defense Brief: Russia holds the Zapad drills along its western borders once every four years; the previous such event took place in 2013. This year, however, the reaction from some of Russia’s neighbors to the west has been nothing short of hysterical. […] For all the Western concerns, the scenario of […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia

Lithuania gives old weapons to Ukraine

2017-11-27 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Lithuania has decided to give some of its old weapons to Ukraine. This is some 7000 Kalashnikovs, machine guns, mortars, anti-tank weapons, and other equipment including ammunition. The total value of the weapons is just a little short of €2 million. This is the third time that Lithuania supplies weapons to Ukraine. The first time […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Lithuania

Lithuania hopes for NATO air defense agreement in 2018

2017-11-24 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Lithuanian defense minister Raimundas Karoblis says he hopes that the NATO countries can reach an agreement in 2018 on the principles for a comprehensive air defense concept for the Baltic region, writes Delfi.lt. According to the Lithuanian minister the problem is political, as the technical details are mostly worked out. He therefore hopes that air […]

Filed Under: Air Force, Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Lithuania

Lithuania acquires Norwegian air defense system

2017-11-02 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Lithuania has announced the purchase of the Norwegian air defense system NASAMS in a €109 million deal with Kongsberg. The system is expected to be fully operational in 2021, reports armyreconition.com. NASAMS is a ground based solution with air defense radars and surface launched medium range missiles. Such a system will be very useful in […]

Filed Under: Air Force Tagged With: Lithuania

Lithuania increases defense spending to meet 2 percent goal

2017-10-24 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Lithuania will increase defense spending to hit the NATO target of 2 percent of GDP in 2018, reports AFP according to digigataljournal.com. With that the total number of NATO countries to meet the goal is up to eight: United States Greece Britain Poland Romania Estonia Latvia Lithuania AFP quotes Lithuania’s defense minister Raimundas Karoblis for […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Lithuania

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