Review the day’s key developments in defense and global affairs with SOFREP’s Evening Brief – Friday, May 23, 2025.

The parade was to mark the start of the deployment of Panzerbrigade 45 "Litauen" (PzBrig 45), the German Army's newest armored brigade based in Rudninkai and Rukla, Lithuania. This is the first German ...

Germany launches first permanent foreign military deployment since WWII, with 5,000 troops to be stationed in Lithuania by ...

Russia and Ukraine exchanged heavy volleys of attack drones overnight, with Ukraine’s Air Force saying it downed 112 of 128 ...

Germany has launched its first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War II— stationing an armored brigade in ...

Lots of reactions from the German press after Chancellor Friedrich Merz oversees the first permanent foreign deployment of German troops to Lithuania since World War ...

The Defense Health Agency’s Operational Medical Systems Program Management Office completed its support of the ongoing ...

Germany announced the permanent deployment of thousands of its troops in Lithuania – the first time it has done so since ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurated a groundbreaking German brigade in Lithuania that is meant to help protect NATO’s ...