Executive Summary
Civil-Military Coordination Center: permanent facility with civilian ministry and military representatives working together continuously. Functions: planning (integrated total defense plans), exercises (annual whole-of-government drills), crisis response (4-hour activation to coordinated operations), information sharing (common operating picture). Representatives from: MoD, Interior, Transport, Energy, Health, Economy, Communications. Target: 4-hour crisis activation, annual exercises with all ministries, standing procedures for 50+ coordination scenarios.
In short: 4-hour whole-of-government crisis activation; Annual total defense exercises; Standing procedures for 50+ scenarios
The Problem
Ukrainian total defense success: civilian sector fully integrated with military from day one—civilian vehicles for logistics, civilian communications for military backup, civilian factories producing defense goods, civilian volunteers filling military gaps. Coordination enabled this; chaos would have prevented it. Lithuanian civil-military coordination: ad hoc, unclear procedures, personnel who don't know each other, systems that don't connect. Crisis response requires: who coordinates civilian fuel supply to military? Who allocates civilian trucks? Who manages civilian worker shelter while factories produce? Total defense requires seamless integration—Lithuania lacks the coordination architecture.