[1][3] The LLA operated an illegal printing press in Vilnius which published the Military and Political News every ten days, with a circulation of 500 to 1,000 copies.

The Army was organized in four regions (Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, and Panevėžys), which were further subdivided into districts based on the administrative divisions of Lithuania.

It unsuccessfully planned to send troops to combat Polish Home Army in the Vilnius Region (see the Polish–Lithuanian relations during World War II).

On July 1, 1944, LLA declared the state of war and ordered all its able members to mobilize into platoons, stationed in forests.

[3] Staff headquarters were in the Plokštinė forest [lt] near Plateliai Lake, Samogitia where LLA had a training camp.

[6] On July 19, 1944, Veverskis, general Motiejus Pečiulionis [lt] and engineer Bronius Snarskis established the Lithuanian Defence Committee (Lithuanian: Lietuvos gynimo komitetas) which was supposed to unite all anti-Soviet resistance groups and factions, but was destroyed in April 1945 when the Soviet secret services arrested its leadership.

[6][7]Many LLA members retreated to Germany, becoming the displaced persons,[2] others responded to the call starting the Lithuanian partisan movement.

[citation needed] According to official statistics from NKVD, the Soviets killed 659 and arrested 753 members of the LLA by January 26, 1945.