- Service ensign · official · carried by Georgian Defence Forces
- State affiliation · Georgia
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Main military flag of the Georgian Defence Forces — carried by Georgian Defence Forces, not issued to this record. The main military flag of the Georgian armed forces — the five-cross field with the national arms at the centre, adopted 2007. CLEARED WITH A CAVEAT in the earlier manifest and not fetched; now fetched and shipped, and the caveat is kept rather than dropped: the force was renamed from Armed Forces to Defence Forces in 2018 and no source located in this pass establishes whether the flag was restyled with it. The label therefore names the flag rather than asserting a date, and the record's own text carries the institutional history. FILE: Wikimedia Commons "Flag of the Georgian Armed Forces.svg", public domain, credited on Commons to the Georgian Ministry of Defence (mod.gov.ge). 44KB optimised to 28KB — editor metadata removed, coordinate precision reduced to two decimals. Geometry, colours and viewBox unaltered. Inherited by the two territorial commands, the aviation and air-defence command, the special operations forces and the National Guard; the Border Police is a separate root under the Interior Ministry and correctly inherits nothing.
State affiliation: Georgia.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
One of the two territorial commands into which the Georgian land force was reorganised — the eastern one, whose area contains the capital, the Tbilisi-facing boundary line with South Ossetia and the Azerbaijani and Armenian frontiers, with its own staff, logistics and subordinate brigades.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 3 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Eastern Georgia from Tbilisi — the Kartli approaches to the South Ossetian line, Kakheti and the southern frontiers
- Notable history
- Georgia abolished its Land Forces as a service in the 2010s and divided the country between two autonomous territorial commands with their own staffs and logistic and administrative resources, each responsible for the subordinate formations in its area under the defence plan. The Eastern Command's area is the one that matters most to the module's Georgian file: the boundary line with South Ossetia runs within an hour of the capital, and Gori — the garrison town the 2008 war reached — sits on the approach. The boundary lines themselves are policed by the Border Police rather than by military structures, consistent with Georgia's unilateral non-use-of-force commitment, so the command's role at the line is depth rather than presence.
- Strengths
- NATO-standard staff and training lineage, interior lines around the capital, and the bulk of the force's formations in its area.
- Limitations
- Strategic depth measured in tens of kilometres from the boundary to the capital, a political constraint that forecloses offensive options by policy, and partnership anchors placed in doubt by the post-2024 crisis. No strength, holdings, positions or readiness are published.
Related locations
Tbilisi: The capital lies in the command's area; structural association only. Gori: The garrison town on the approach to the South Ossetian line, in the command's area; no positions are represented.
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Assessed as of — 2026-06 Last reviewed — 2026-09-09
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