{"id":221100,"date":"2026-06-30T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/on-natos-eastern-flank-how-lithuania-is-strengthening-its-defences\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:49:14","slug":"on-natos-eastern-flank-how-lithuania-is-strengthening-its-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/on-natos-eastern-flank-how-lithuania-is-strengthening-its-defences\/","title":{"rendered":"On NATO&#8217;s eastern flank: How Lithuania is strengthening its defences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military exercises, a historic German deployment and sitting in Moscow&#8217;s shadow: Lithuania&#8217;s Chief of the Defence Staff tells Euronews why the country believes deterrence is its strongest defence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/30\/on-natos-eastern-flank-how-lithuania-is-strengthening-its-defences\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military exercises, a historic German deployment and sitting in Moscow&#8217;s shadow: Lithuania&#8217;s Chief of the Defence Staff tells Euronews why the country believes deterrence is its strongest defence. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":221101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}