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Georgian Special Operations Forces

სპეციალური ოპერაციების ძალები

GEORGIA · GEORGIAN DEFENCE FORCES · SPECIAL UNIT

Part of Georgian Defence Forces

Georgia Active
Assessed as of
2026-06
Reviewed
2026-09-28
Confidence
moderate
  • 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' special operations command — formally established in November 1999 on the lineage of formations raised during the 1992–1993 Abkhazia war and built up under Turkish and later American partnership programmes; it carried much of Georgia's Afghanistan record, including a reinforced company guarding the Resolute Support headquarters from 2015 to 2021, and holds the professional core the force's partnerships built.

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

Formed 1999-11

Confidence: Moderate Methodology Corrections

Assessed as of — 2026-06 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28

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