| Honorific Prefix: | Lieutenant general |
| Jan Swillens | |
| Term Start: | 8 March 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Martin Wijnen |
| Birth Date: | 20 August 1967 |
| Birth Place: | Nijkerk, Netherlands |
| Allegiance: | Netherlands |
| Rank: | Lieutenant general |
| Unit: | Korps Commandotroepen |
The Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army (C-LAS, Dutch: Commandant Landstrijdkrachten) is the highest-ranking officer of the Royal Netherlands Army and reports directly to the Chief of Defence. The Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army is statutorily a three-star general. The current C-LAS is Lieutenant General Jan Swillens.
The position of C-LAS was created on 5 September 2005 as part of a thorough reorganization within the Dutch Ministry of Defence in which the staffs (military and civilian) were reduced in size and an entire organizational layer was dropped. prior to the reorganization the commanding officer of the Army was the "Bevelhebber der Landstrijdkrachten" (abbreviated BLS; the term also translates into English as Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army).
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | Lieutenant general Peter van Uhm | 5 September 2005 | 13 March 2008 | ||||
| 2 | Lieutenant general Rob Bertholee | 13 March 2008 | 25 October 2011 | ||||
| 3 | Lieutenant general Mart de Kruif | 25 October 2011 | 24 March 2016 | ||||
| 4 | Lieutenant general Leo Beulen | 24 March 2016 | 28 August 2019 | [1] [2] | |||
| 5 | Lieutenant general Martin Wijnen | 28 August 2019 | 8 march 2024 | ||||
| 6 | Lieutenant general Jan Swillens | 8 march 2024 | [3] | ||||