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

- The CSTO currently sees no need to increase defense spending. The organization is coping with its tasks and even in conditions of external political pressure remains an effective structure, an ...

Russia is on a war footing and pumping out weapons, and its struggles in Ukraine don't mean it won't look elsewhere, experts and officials warn.

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 ...

European leaders gathered Monday to plot a rough path forward on defense. Wavering support from President Trump is driving ...

Last week, the VSD boss vowed to uncover Russian sanction circumvention schemes; finance vice-minister resigned amid ...

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.