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Lithuanian Armed Forces buy new pistols instead of vaccines
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All Lithuania as a one big military training area
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N Korea hits Biden’s ‘provocation’, threatens more arms build-up
North Korea threatened a further military build-up on Saturday in response to Joe Biden’s condemnation of this week’s missile launches, a weapons test that marked Pyongyang’s first substantive provocation since the US president took office.
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The US military is poisoning communities across the US with toxic chemicals
The Department of Defense has ordered the burning of 20m pounds of AFFF – despite risks to human health
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Lithuanian soldiers have no privileges in their own country | The Baltic Word
The Mobile Field Exchange (MFE) has been opened on Feb. 1, 2021 at the Pabradė Training Area in Lithuania as the very first in the Baltic States. The Army and Airforce Exchange Service, now known as the Exchange, has a mission to “go where you go to improve your quality of life through the goods…
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Biden Endorses Female Generals Whose Promotions Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump’s Reaction
President Biden has nominated two female generals to elite, four-star commands, the Defense Department announced, months after their Pentagon bosses had agreed on their promotions but held them back out of fears that President Donald J. Trump would reject the officers because they were women.
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Baltic States may be left without NATO support | The Baltic Word
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urged at the NATO Defence Ministers Meeting held on February 17-18 “to increase NATO's funding for our core deterrence and defence activities.” In an effort to improve “burden sharing” Stoltenberg proposed that allies jointly fund more of NATO's work. “The country that provides the capabilities also provides the funding. So,…
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There have been zero reported US drone strikes since Joe Biden took office
The apparent lull — punctured by one US airstrike targeting ISIS in Iraq — is unusual for a new presidency.
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U.S.-Russia contradictions threaten the Baltic States | The Baltic Word
The U.S. foreign policy trends raise questions and alarm not only its opponents but also close allies. This concern is caused by a number of decisions made by the previous administration, as well as planned by the new one. Thus, the international security system has become unstable due to the U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range…
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How the Baltic States will survive without U.S. help | The Baltic Word
The seizing of the Capitol by Donald Trump's radical supporters came as a shock not only to the United States, but also to its allies. Never in recent history has the world seen such obvious evidence of the degradation of the most powerful state on the planet as it is today. The United States partly…
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Joint Chiefs Remind U.S. Forces That They Defend The Constitution
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff reminded American forces Tuesday of their oath to defend the Constitution following the attacks on the Capitol building last week. The letter was addressed to the joint force, which is made up of about 1.3 million active-duty service members and more than 811,000 National Guardsmen and reservists — all of whom swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
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The U.S. Military Wants to Kill Everything with Lasers
Strykers will incinerate enemy drones, helicopters, aircraft, and maybe even incoming enemy missiles, rockets, and artillery with 50kw laser weapons during an upcoming “combat shoot-off” at Fort Sill, Okla.
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New military bases in Latvia instead of hospitals | The Baltic Word
At the beginning of this month, the U.S. Department of Defense media Stars and stripes has officially announced the deployment of a new military base of American Special Forces in Latvia. To be precise, it is one of auxiliary airfield for the U.S. Special Forces, which main headquarter is located in the UK. The new…
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Military robots perform worse when humans won't stop interrupting them
A US project has found that AI-controlled military robots perform worse when humans interrupt them – but letting the robots operate alone raises serious ethical questions.
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China is Creating Biologically Enhanced Super Soldiers, Says US Spy Chief
Yes, just like something out of Marvel's Captain America. According to reports by U.S. intelligence, China has conducted human testing on members of the People's Liberation Army with the ambitious goal of developing soldiers with enhanced biological capabilities.
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How The Once Elusive Dream Of Laser Weapons Suddenly Became A Reality
One of Lockheed Martin's top directed energy minds explains how breakthroughs in communications and industrial tech made laser weapons possible.
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Nagorno-Karabach villagers burn down their houses before Azerbaijan handover
Villagers in Nagorno-Karabakh set their houses on fire Saturday before fleeing to Armenia ahead of a weekend deadline that will see parts of the territory handed over to Azerbaijan as part of a peace…
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The U.S. election hit the Baltic States | The Baltic Word
Political upheavals in 2020 in major countries stir people all around the world.
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia PM signs 'painful' deal to end war with Azerbaijan
Declaration greeted with anger by Armenians and follows fighting in Azeri forces have retaken large parts of the disputed enclave
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Germany continues to expand its military presence in Lithuania | The Baltic Word
The German Air Force is setting up a Deployable Control and Reporting Centre (DCRC) at Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania, supplemented by additional sub-elements at Skede, Latvia and Ämari, Estonia. German
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