General Information for Visiting This Website

This Website is maintained by the Communication Strategies Department, Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic, and is designed for international visitors to provide general information on the defence department, the military of the Czech Republic and defence-related issues. The information pages in English do not represent the whole contents of the website provided in Czech.

According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the President is the supreme commander of Armed Forces, while the Minister of Defence, as a member of the Government, is the immediate superior to his deputies and the Chief of the General Staff, who is the highest military official within the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic.

Abbreviation “ACR”: for the purpose of this website the name of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic (ACR) is used for the Army of the Czech Republic (ACR) or the Czech military unless stated or referred otherwise hereinafter. As the literal translation from Czech into English of the Army of the Czech Republic could imply it contains only ground forces, the formulation of Armed Forces of the Czech Republic has been adopted to describe the whole organisation of the Czech military. The Czech law No. 219/1999 Dig., referred to as the Defence Law, including its amendments, stipulates that the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic consist of the Army, Military Office of President of the Republic, and the Castle Guard. The Castle Guard is a military unit protecting and defending the seat of the President at the Prague Castle.