On March 20–21 the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania will hold international Baltic Military Conference 2019 for the first organised in Lithuania. The main themes of the event will be training for defence and application of the Western military experience in the Baltics. The conference will be opened by Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis and Minister of Defence of Finland Jussi Niinistö, high ranking officers, defence policy shapers, diplomats, academics, and other experts from the Baltic region, NATO allies, U.S., and partner countries will be guests at the event and deliver addresses.
The conference will take place in the framework of Vilnius Security Forum marking the 70th NATO anniversary on March 20-22. This year Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia also celebrate their 15th anniversary as members of NATO.
The conference will aim to reflect, assess and address changes in the military since regaining Baltic independence in 1990. Also, attracting a constant international attention to the Baltic region and developing cooperation among NATO countries’ defence experts at national and regional levels is expected.
The conference held in Vilnius, Military Academy of Lithuania, will provide a platform for experts of various fields to exchange views and expertise and to discuss regional threats and challenges.
Speakers will share military ideas and lessons learnt applied in their countries and personal experience from multinational operations in crisis regions and seek to review conceptual and doctrinal challenges awaiting the Baltic states’ militaries bearing in mind the joint development of the regional defence system.
Organisers of the conference, experts of the Research Centre and other divisions of the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania, seek to make the conference a continuing high-level project that would have a weighty and significant input into defence policy planning.
The conference is a closed event for invited guests and pre-registered audience.
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