The Executive Branch is the one that is over the Armed Forces. The Executive Branch consists of the President and Vice President.
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1. Punish Piracies 2. Declare War 3.Organize militia 4. Raise and support armed forces 5. Provide navy 6. Regulate armed forces 7. Call forth militia (Straight from my textbook)
Executive
The Armed Forces is an element of the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense is a department of the Executive Branch of government. The President of the United States is the head of the Executive Branch, and Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces.
As head of state, and head of the Executive branch of the government, the President is the commander in chief of the US armed forces.
Because the Executive Branch has the "inherent" Constitutional power to enter into a contract.