- 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
The Defence Forces' reserve and territorial component — established on 20 December 1990 as the first armed formation of the independence movement, the principal Georgian force of the 1991–1993 wars, reorganised repeatedly since, and the structure through which the total-defence concept the force describes would be delivered; its current reserve organisation is published by the ministry and not read for this record.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Record state
- Stub
About this record
Stub — a structured placeholder meeting the public-stub threshold: name, place in the force tree, broad role, and a dated status. A full profile follows source review.
Lineage & institutional history
Assessed as of — 2026-06 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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