Lieutenant General Lars Johan Kihl (born 14 January 1946) is a retired Swedish Army officer.
Kihl became a certified upper secondary school engineer in 1965[1] before graduating from the Royal Military Academy in 1969.
[2] Kihl was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1985 and attended Harvard University in the United States from 1987 to 1988 and was then battalion/brigade commander in the Life Regiment Grenadiers (I 3) in Örebro from 1988 to 1990.
[2] He was promoted to colonel in 1990 and served as section chief in the Defence Staff's Planning Department[4] before being appointed commanding officer of Norrland Dragoon Regiment (K 4) in Arvidsjaur in 1992.
Kihl served there until 1996 when he was promoted to brigadier and appointed head of the Long-term Planning Department at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters.