- 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 defence staff. The Land Force statute of 1 September 2026 has the Land Force assigning capabilities to the Chief of the Defence Staff for operational direction and collecting military intelligence to the Defence Staff’s collection plan; the ministry’s work regulations make the Chief directly subordinate to the Commander of the Armed Forces. Its own statute is approved separately and was not served by the register to this pass.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 1 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- The whole Lithuanian Armed Forces: operational direction of assigned capabilities, the military intelligence collection plan and, under the military service statute, command of soldiers sent to international operations.
- Notable history
- The ministry’s work regulations of 2010 describe a Chief of the Defence Staff directly subordinate to the Commander of the Armed Forces and accountable to the Minister; the military service statute assigns him operational command of soldiers on international operations from departure to return. The Land Force statute of 1 September 2026 shows the same mechanism in current form: the service assigns capabilities to the Chief of the Defence Staff for operational direction and feeds his intelligence collection plan. That is the staff a national division and an allied brigade both have to talk to.
- Strengths
- A single strategic staff between the Commander and the services, with a published operational-direction function that the newest service statute reaffirms. In a force being rebuilt around a division, the staff that receives assigned capabilities is the point at which national and allied planning meet.
- Limitations
- Its own statute and structure were not served by the register to this pass, and the law’s dedicated article on it appears as repealed in the consolidated text, so the current legal definition is carried here from other instruments that refer to it rather than from its own. Nothing about its size, branches or seat is established.
Sensitivity: Public · structural Confidence: High Sources: Republic of Lithuania legal-acts register (Teisės aktų registras)↗ Methodology Corrections
Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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