Welcome signs to NATO all in English

  • 1999-07-15
  • By Paul Beckman
VILNIUS - Lithuanian leaders are often showered with compliments from NATO officials for beefing up the country's military.But there is still work that needs to be done, and as the chief of the United Kingdom's defense staff recently noted, it has nothing to do with weapons but everything to do with soldiers' voice boxes: To get on the NATO team, you've got to speak English.Gen. Charles Guthrie, the U.K.'s chief of staff, drove that message home loud and clear during a two-day visit to Vilnius earlier this month.While he offered glowing assessments of Lithuania's armed forces and their achi...
 
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