An additional 350 German troops are to be deployed to join the NATO contingent in Lithuania within the next five days, German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht announced on Monday. “With this, we are strengthening our contribution on the eastern flank. You can rely on us,” Lambrecht told journalists, making a pointed reference to the open questioning of Germany’s reliability by other members of the military alliance in the past week. For five years, Germany has been the leading contributor to a multinational NATO force in Lithuania, for which it currently provides about half of the 1,200 tr…