Data from a survey by Pitagórica for TVI and CNN Portugal has shown that most respondents would volunteer to defend Portugal if the country was attacked.
Portugal plans to commit 1,440 soldiers from the three branches of the Armed Forces to Detached National Forces (FDN) abroad in 2022, in a total of 30.
Portugal commits 146 soldiers to NATO mission in Lithuania By TPN/Lusa, in News · 25-04-2021 20:00:00 · 0 Comments
A Portuguese contingent of 146 military personnel, mostly marines will participate for the third time in a NATO mission in Lithuania, between June and August, a source from the Navy told the Lusa news agency .
After presences in that Baltic country in 2018 and 2019, the Marines return within the framework of reassurance measures of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), intended to mark presence on the eastern borders of the European continent, for reconnaissance of the terrain and also as a form of deterrence against possible threats, particularly by the power Russia.