Aranese Armed Forces

The Aranese Armed Forces (Forces Armades Aranés; Fòrças Armadas Aranesas; Aranera Indar Armatuak), or FAA/AIA, occasionally referred to as the Aranese Defense Force, are the military forces of the Aranese Community, charged with defending the Community's sovereignty and territorial integrity. In recent years they have been engaged in international peacekeeping operations, in accordance to Aranese foreign policy. Recent global tensions and have reignited the debate over the status of AAF and its relation to Aranese society. New military guidelines, announced in December 2017, will direct the AAF away from its Cold War focus on maintaining short-range defense and deterrence, to a focus on its long-range offensive capabilities, while increasing cooperation with the European Union, the United States, Australia and Japan.