Executive Summary
Permanent Ukrainian expert exchange program: 50+ combat veterans annually for 2-4 week training missions across 12 domains (FPV operations, EW, air defense, TCCC, counter-battery, drone repair, trench warfare, logistics under fire, civilian defense, night operations, IED/mine warfare, urban combat). Embed veterans at battalion level. Send 100+ Lithuanian personnel to Ukraine for frontline exposure. Document all lessons into doctrine. Target: every Lithuanian combat unit trains with Ukrainian veteran annually.
In short: 50+ Ukrainian experts annual training missions; 12 warfare domains covered systematically; 100+ Lithuanian personnel with frontline exposure
The Problem
Ukrainian forces have accumulated 1000+ days of modern combined arms combat experience—knowledge that took NATO 20 years in Afghanistan. This expertise is perishable: veterans rotate out, suffer injury, or die. Lithuanian training relies on Cold War doctrine updated with theory. Gap between peacetime training and combat reality causes casualties in first weeks of conflict. Ukrainian data: units with combat-experienced trainers achieve 40% lower casualties in first 30 days. This knowledge transfer window closes as war ends.