King's Loyal Washingtonian Armed Forces

The Washingtonian Armed Forces (officially the King's Loyal Washingtonian Armed Forces - KLWAF) is the national military of the Kingdom of Washingtonia. It consists of the King's Loyal Washingtonian Army (WAR), the King's Loyal Washingtonian Air Force (WAF) and the King's Loyal Washingtonian Navy (WNV).

The King is the sovereign source of authority and formally recognized as the General in Chief (Const 3 S2) in the Constitution. The President, which is recognized as the Commander in Chief (Cost 5 S8(a)), is the more practical leader of the Armed Forces and would normally act as the "go to" person for general staff. The President has statutory security briefings by his military advisers, while the King may request one.

Each of the three service branches are led independently of one another by a Commanding General, each with his own headquarters somewhere in and around Foundersville. The Minister of Defense is the civilian head of military administration, and manages among others, the military's budget as allocated by the Treasury, and the peacetime affairs of general staff when the President is not doing so. The Ministry of Defense is housed in the Ministry of Defense Building in the Government District of Foundersville.

Officially, the Armed Forces are charged with "protecting the Kingdom, its Sovereign, its assets and its interests". As one of the founding members of NATO, the Armed Forces have been a very active participant in its activities. Most of the Armed Forces' engagements are undertaken alongside French forces due to the Armed Forces' relatively small size. It supported the French resistance during the Second World War and more recently supported the French intervention in Mali. It is also heavily involved under UN mandates in peacekeeping throughout Africa. The military is of a moderate size, having just over 150,000 active troops dispersed across all the service branches: Army - 80,000, Air Force - 30,000, Navy - 40,000.