LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Gynybos efektyvumas; Lietuvos karinė pertvarka; Pokyčiai; Changes; Efficiency of defence; Lithuanian military transformation.
ENThe aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the changes and development of the Lithuanian military since 2014 and how it managed to navigate between conflicting, contradictory Western ideas, proposals and looked for its own authentic ways. The position taken in this chapter is as follows: Institutional and conceptual inertia and a copy-paste mentality in the Lithuanian armed forces was broken only in 2014, when the real military transformation started. Yet, the magnitude and breakneck pace of change made this transformation uneven, leaving conceptual and societal aspects of defence politics least developed. [Extract, p. 307]