- State affiliation · Lithuania
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
State affiliation: Lithuania.
Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.
In brief
The divisional headquarters between the Land Force and Lithuania’s manoeuvre brigades, named by the Seimas on 25 June 2025 and given operative form by the 2026 brigade and regiment statutes. Its place under the Land Force comes from the engineer regiment’s statute, which lists the orders governing the regiment in descending order — Commander of the Armed Forces, Land Force commander, First Division commander.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. 3 subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 4 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Lithuania; its subordinate formations are seated at Rukla, Klaipėda and Kaunas, and the German-led brigade NATO describes as permanent is being established on the same ground.
- Notable history
- The principal-structure law had no division until the Seimas amended it in June 2024 to add an infantry division; the amendment of 25 June 2025 renamed it the First Division of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and fixed its composition at three permanent brigades, engineer and artillery regiments and a reconnaissance battalion. The ministerial statutes of 2026 then made the subordination operative in words: the Iron Wolf Brigade is a formation of the First Division subordinate to its commander (8 April), the engineer regiment is directly subordinate to the division commander (10 July), and the Žemaitija Brigade is subordinate to the division commander (31 August).
- Strengths
- A division defined by statute rather than announced, with its brigades’ subordination written into their own founding orders — the strongest public evidence for a divisional tree in this module. Built in parallel with the German-led brigade that NATO describes as reaching full operation by 2027, it gives Lithuania a national headquarters at the echelon above the allied formation rather than below it.
- Limitations
- The authored division is smaller than the legislated one: one of its three brigades and its artillery regiment have no statute this project has read. No divisional statute, seat, headquarters structure or readiness date is established from official sources, and the media reports of a 2030 full-operational-capability target are not carried as fact.
Subordinate formations
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Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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