Quadriga 2025: Grand Eagle

37 Armoured Infantry Brigade provides a quarter of the 8,000 servicemen and women participating in the Quadriga 2025 exercise series. Quadriga allows Germany to demonstrate its determination to defend NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization territory in close cooperation with its allies and partners.

During Grand Eagle, military capabilities such as the movement of forces and network-enabled operations involving armed forces of different nations will be trained. The objective is to be able to quickly and robustly reinforce allied forces already standing by to defend the eastern flank.

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In Lithuania, free-play exercise elements in the public sphere and a command post exercise await the brigade and its support forces. The exercises especially focuses on deployment. The goal is to transport the forces to the Baltic region as quickly as possible using all modes of transport, meaning by ship, air and rail transport as well as by road. Logistic procedures between Bundeswehr Joint Support Command Logistics and operational logistics will also be trained intensively during the nearly four-week exercise and involve civilian infrastructures. During this process, the Grand Eagle Army exercise will merge with the Bundeswehr Joint Support Headquarters’ Brave Blue exercise. Brave Blue is also part of the Quadriga exercise series.

In order to ensure that the multinational forces work together smoothly and that the formation consolidates its own operational and defence readiness, servicemen and women continuously train capabilities in national and international operational settings using Lithuanian civilian infrastructure. It is important that the force quickly find its bearings in the new and partly unknown environment and apply its skills without any major delay.

From 2022 to 2024, 37 Armoured Infantry Brigade was already tasked with standing by as part of the NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization Response Force, which is the Alliance’s rapid response force. Since January 2025, the brigade has once more been earmarked for a NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization mission: Referred to as Multinational Brigade Lithuania, it is part of 10 Armoured Division and the brigade with the highest degree of availability and operational readiness across the entire German Army. It strengthens NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization’s forward presence and, together with our Allies, makes a fundamental contribution to the deterrence and defence capability on NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization’s eastern flank and to the reassurance of the Baltic population. 37 Armoured Infantry Brigade will stand by in Germany until 45 Armoured Brigade in Lithuania achieves full operational capability and will deploy to Lithuania at very short notice, at a high state of readiness even in its basic structure.

“We are robust. We are present. We can do this.”, Commander Brigadier General David Markus summarises his unit’s mindset. His brigade will fulfil its mission as Multinational Brigade Lithuania together with their fellow servicemen and women of Division 2025.

As required by NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization, 10 Armoured Division has been available as Division 2025 for the mission of deterrence as well as national and collective defence on NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization’s eastern flank. Division 2025 comprises a total of up to 30,000 military personnel.