page_title: Commander-in-Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces
hierarchical_section_title: Commander-in-Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
context_page_description: The Commander-in-Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces is the ultimate commanding authority of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces, an executive role vested in the President of Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: The Commander-in-Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා සන්නද්ධ හමුදාවේ සේනාධිනායක, romanized: śrī laṁkā sannaddha hamudāvē sēnādhināyaka) is the ultimate commanding authority of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces, an executive role vested in the President of Sri Lanka.
caption: Currently
  HE Lieutenant colonel Gotabaya Rajapaksa RWP, RSP, psc, GR
  since 18 November 2019
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