India, July 15 -- Germany has committed to deploy a permanent brigade in Lithuania, purchase a sizable number of F-35 Lightning II fighter jets fom the U.S., and increase its defense spending.
In 2022, Germany agreed to buy 35 F-35 aircraft from the United States.
These commitments were made by visiting German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius during a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon Monday, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
The German army plans to station some 4,800 military personnel in Lithuania, along with civilian personnel. That brigade will eventually include a mechanized infantry battalion, a tank battalion and the multinational "Enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup Lithuania." Pistorius ...