The Armed Forces consists of the National Army, Frontier Troops and Carabineer Troops. The basic element is the National Army. The President of Moldova, the Government and the Parliament have overall command of the Armed Forces; the individual ministries are responsible for the centralized public administration of these military units and institutions which within their structures; the Main Staff of the National Army and the Department of Frontier Troops and Carabineer Troops exercise military command. In peacetime the Main Staff of the National Army works out the operational and mobilization plans for the Armed Forces and organizes their training for the defense of the state. But at a time of military threat, or in wartime, it becomes as the Main Staff of the Armed Forces attached to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the President of Moldova, and commands all military units in the conduct of the defense of the country.
In 1998 in Moldova has started the Military reform. The objective of the military reform is the reorganization of the state's military system into an efficient and simple system of military security insurance, in correlation with state in law norms, modern Europe frame and state's geopolitics social political and economic perspectives.