NATO’s first major exercise this year, "STEADFAST DART", has seen its Allied Response Force (ARF) deploy 10,000 troops with ...

Kęstutis Budrys, Lithuania Minister of Foreign Affairs, shares some details around the various conversations he's had on ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Ms. Kazuko Shirono, visited Vilnius during January 27–31, 2025, to meet with the Lithuanian authorities and other stakeholders to discuss recent ...

In an era marked by evolving geopolitical challenges and the imperative for robust defense capabilities along NATO’s Eastern Flank, the strategic partnership ...

In order to increase Latvia’s defence spending from the existing 3.45% of gross domestic product (GDP) to 5%, which has been ...

The cost of the wars is also reflected in the yearly military budget which reached record levels of more than $600 billion in 2009, as Bush's presidency ended. In April 2024, the U.S. announced it ...

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has declared that any effort to end Russia's war in Ukraine must fully involve Kyiv.

France rejected criticism from new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that it lagged in defence, saying it met NATO's target to spend 2% of GDP on its military, was on course to double spending by ...

The country recently became the first member of the NATO military alliance to commit to raising its defense spending to at ...