In order to boost the role of the National Guard within the national defense system and to continue to develop its structures, Latvia’s Defense Minister Raimonds Bergmanis recently ordered the commander of the National Armed Forces, Raimonds Graube, to transform the current National Guard regional formations into National Guard Infantry Brigades (Delfi.lv, March 21). This decision can be seen as a key turning point in further integrating the national armed forces with more cohesive command-and-control structures.
Currently, command and control over the Latvian military is divided between the two main entities of national defense—the country’s professional army (which consists of about …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
