The U.S. expects from Lithuania to do its defence homework. Strengthening defence not only means to maintain military spending at least at 2% of GDP, it is also about enhancing societal resilience, energy security and introduction of necessary changes in the legal base to counter hybrid and conventional threats to national security. It is vital to improve infrastructure to support the forward defence of NATO and enable enhanced deployment and mobility of defence assets. Also, it is expected that Lithuania, as well as other Baltic States, will be fighting a resistance war in the time of crisis making it a whole-of-society effort rather than
a struggle by scattered individual groups of the society or the armed forces only. On the national level, all the efforts to strengthen national security and defence after the war in Ukraine could be qualified as enhancing resilience both national and societal in Lithuania. Lithuania needs to strengthen its internal societal consolidation, i.e. national security institutions, their interaction, governance and coordination; involvement of business and NGOs should be ensured as well as. Lithuania has to hold at least one nation-wide mobilization exercise to show readiness to defend against any attack by itself and together with the allies. Modern deterrence and total (comprehensive) defence is multi-domain, multidimensional and includes military, economic, social, cultural, information, and cyber aspects. Therefore, a coordinated and active response should be delivered by the government. Since Lithuania is on the Eastern frontier of NATO, societal