{"id":48698,"date":"2019-09-28T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48698"},"modified":"2019-09-28T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T13:15:17","slug":"us-troops-and-tanks-headed-to-lithuania-for-extended-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48698","title":{"rendered":"US Troops and Tanks Headed to Lithuania for \u2018Extended Mission\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2019\/09\/25\/us-troops-and-tanks-headed-to-lithuania-for-extended-mission\/\">US Troops and Tanks Headed to Lithuania for \u2018Extended Mission\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Officials say deployment meant to &#8216;deter Russia&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lithuania\u2019s Defense Ministry has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us-tanks-and-troops-headed-to-lithuania-for-lengthy-deployment-1.600424\">announced a new deployment of US troops to their country<\/a>. The deployment will include a number of US soldiers, tanks, and fighting vehicles, and will be an \u201cextended mission.\u201d<br><br>The deployment is being presented by Lithuanian officials as proof of a \u201clarger, long-term US military involvement in Lithuania,\u201d while others say it is meant to deter Russian aggression.<br><br>The deployment is part of the US Army\u2019s Atlantic Resolve campaign, which has been ongoing since 2014, and has focused on sending more and more US military assets to Baltic states and other nations near the Russian frontier.&nbsp;<br><br>The new US troops will be stationed in Pabrade, a town along the border with Belarus. They sayover 500 troops, 30 Abrams tanks, 25 Bradleys, and 70 other vehicles will be involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Troops and Tanks Headed to Lithuania for \u2018Extended Mission\u2019 Officials say deployment meant to &#8216;deter Russia&#8217; Lithuania\u2019s Defense Ministry has&nbsp;announced a new deployment of US troops to their country. The deployment will include a number of US soldiers, tanks, and fighting vehicles, and will be an \u201cextended mission.\u201d The deployment is being presented by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6400,2368,844,11226],"class_list":["post-48698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-antiwar-com","tag-lithuania","tag-us-military","tag-us-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48700,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698\/revisions\/48700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}