Lithuania Moves to Expand Military Training Facilities
The Baltic nation will construct a brigade-scale training complex in Kapciamiestis, located in the country's southern region adjacent to the Polish and Belarusian frontiers, a public broadcaster reported Monday.
Separately, authorities plan to double the footprint of an existing military facility near Taurage in the country's west by extending operations into an adjacent district, according to the public broadcaster.
Lithuania's State Defense Council greenlit the initiative. Deividas Matulionis, national security adviser to President Gitanas Nauseda, explained that Kapciamiestis was chosen because of its strategic significance to the nation's defense posture.
The location sits squarely within the Suwałki Gap—a critical 60-mile land bridge linking the Baltic republics to the broader NATO alliance.
Both Warsaw and NATO headquarters consider the corridor essential to regional security architecture, vowing it will remain a primary focus of defensive planning.
The infrastructure overhaul arrives as Lithuania ramps up military recruitment through expanded conscription programs and reserve mobilization, while simultaneously procuring advanced weaponry systems.
Berlin has committed to stationing a brigade numbering several thousand soldiers in Lithuania by 2027—a deployment anticipated to create substantial demand for expanded training infrastructure.
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