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The Royal Antoran Defense Forces are responsible for duties defined by the First Constitution: ensuring the continued sovereignty of the kingdom, defending the economic interests of citizens both internationally and domestically, and responding to national emergencies, which include outbreak of illness, natural disaster, and civil unrest. Due to financial constraints, there is a lower amount of what could be considered 'state-of-the-art' armaments in the FDAR, but the Ministry of Armed Services endeavors to keep their soldiers well-trained and well-rounded. The FDAR is the [[List of countries by number of military personnel|14th-largest military in the world by personnel]] and the [[List of countries by military expenditure|40th-largest by expenditure.]] As part of the [[Inter-Novaran Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance]], Antora maintains a standing force capable of contributing to the mutual defense of treaty members.

Antora maintains a smallermodestly-than-average butsized, reasonably modern standing army, focusingthat focuses on defense-in-depth rather than power projection. The Antoran economy is lessmiddling powerfuland thanunable neighboringto countries,be whichused leavesas tradean leverageeffective unviabledeterrent asagainst ahostilities, meansaccording ofto threatgovernment deterrentexperts. The Constitutions also require a certain percentage of the population to be in active military service at any time. This has resulted in a national belief that military power, while morally unfortunate, is ethically honorable to use to prevent foreign aggression.

The doctrine used by the generalDefense staffForces relies on many small, highly-trained, effective units supported by artillery, redundant defense systems, and mobile auxiliaries. The FDAR maintains ten permanent air bases, seven permanent army forts, three naval yards, four naval bases, and eleven guard bases in twelve defense zones. By popular referendum, Antora does not allow the production, transport, operation, storage, or deployment of nuclear weapons in its territory, though it maintains missiles capable of mounting nuclear warheads as part of its participation in the INTRA nuclear triad. In 2022, the Royal Corric Defense Forces transitioned along with all other royal patronages and governmental ministries to become the Royal Antoran Defense Forces. The FDAR participates annually in the [[Nordörn]] exercises with the rest of the [[Conference for Amity and Cooperation]].

The Royal Antoran Armed Legions consist of fifteen divisions across ten defense regions. Twelve divisions are combat-focused, two are support-focused, and the last is the Command division, occupying the tenth Headquarters military region. Personnel totals 115,000 with the Command division having 3,000 troops and the rest 8,000. There are five types of combat division: Infantry,; which consists of standard mobile infantry, artillery, and air defenses, Mountain,; which contains a large amount of artillery, air defenses, and less infantry units, Armored,; which splits focus between mechanized infantry, armored combat vehicles, and artillery, Airborne,; which is made up of paratroopers, light infantry, and air defenses, and Special,; which are highly specialized and have the nations elite military units.

The current major fleet elements consist of the flagship, helicopter cruisercarrier ARC ''Gracia de RégneAntora'', as well as 2 destroyers, 73 frigates, 128 corvettes, 710 fast attack craft, 2 minelayers, 3 mine countermeasure ships, 917 patrol ships, 2615 smaller patrol craft, and 7 major auxiliary ships. The Armada also maintains several dozen smaller vessels, boats, and miscellaneous craft, and 834 warships of various makevessels in repairreserve. In total, the Armada maintains 5868 commissioned and named warships, 7681 number-registered vessels, and 166 total watercraft including light boats. The 5th Shore Group consists of the bulk of the Armadas' 8060,000 servicemembers, filling roles on naval bases, as research, development, or fabrication engineers, marine infantry, and as rotational personnel on vessels.

The Royal Antoran Air Cavalry consists of foursix Air Combat Brigades, two Air BombardmentPatrol Brigades, and twothree Transport Brigades. The Air Brigades each have two Air Groups, which encapsulate every aspect of aircraft use from pilots to engineers to spare parts inventories, each Group containing two operations combat squadrons. The Air Cavalry maintains about 80100 fighter jets across sixteen squadrons. Along with the direct combat aircraft, inventory also consists maritime patrol craft, transport planes, firefighting aircraft, and many helicopters. The Air Cavalry does not possess bombers or large numbers of long-range aircraft, duebut tooperates doctrine10 beingVolscine-derived mostlystrike aircraft as air-launched cruise missile platforms. The Air Cavalry also maintains and operates the Antoran air defense and defensiveballistic inmissile naturesystems.