Yemeni Armed Forces

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Yemeni Armed Forces
‎الْقُوَّاتُ الْمُسَلَّحَةُ الْيَّمَّنِيَّة
Emblem of the Armed Forces of Yemen
Flag of the Armed Forces of Yemen
Founded	1920; 104 years ago (1920)
Current form	1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Service branches	Army Navy Air Force
Headquarters	Riyadh (PLCTooltip Presidential Leadership Council) Sanaa (SPCTooltip Supreme Political Council)
Website	yafm.net (PLC) mmy.ye (SPC)
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief	Rashad al-Alimi (PLC) Mahdi al-Mashat (SPC)
Prime Minister	Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed (PLC) Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour (SPC)
Minister of Defense	Mohsen Mohammed Al-Daeri (PLC) Mohamed al-Atifi (SPC)
Chief of Staff	Sagheer Hamoud Aziz (PLC) Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (SPC)
Personnel
Military age	18
Available for military service	12,002,529[1], age 15–49
Fit for military service	8,875,554[1], age 15–49
Reaching military age annually	600,126[1]
Active personnel	66,700[2]
Reserve personnel	0[1]
Expenditure
Budget	$1.4 billion (2019)[3]
Percent of GDP	8%
Industry
Domestic suppliers	Yemen's military industry
Foreign suppliers	Pro-Yemeni government:  Australia  Austria  Brazil  Bulgaria[4]  Canada  Czech Republic  France  Germany  Hungary  India  Indonesia  Italy  Japan  South Korea  Netherlands  Poland  Singapore  South Africa  Sweden   Switzerland  Taiwan  Turkey  Ukraine  United Kingdom  United States Pro-Houthi government:  Belarus  Cuba  Iran  North Korea  Russia
Related articles
History	Military history of Yemen: Saudi–Yemeni war 1948 Arab–Israeli War North Yemen civil war Yemenite War of 1972 NDF Rebellion Yemenite War of 1979 Yemeni civil war (1994) Hanish Islands conflict Shia insurgency in Yemen South Yemen insurgency Yemeni revolution Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
Ranks	Military ranks of Yemen

Yemeni Armed Forces
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Minister of Defense
Military services
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The Yemeni Armed Forces (Arabic: الْقُوَّاتُ الْمُسَلَّحَةُ الْيَّمَّنِيَّة, romanized: Al-Quwwat Al-Musallahah Al-Yamaniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of Yemen. They include the Yemeni Army (including the Republican Guard), Yemeni Navy (including the Marines) and the Yemeni Air Force (including the Air Defense Force). Since the start of the current civil war in 2014, the armed forces have been divided; at first between loyalists of the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and pro-Yemeni government forces of president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi; as of 2024, between the internationally recognized Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), and the Houthi-led Supreme Political Council (SPC). Per the constitution, the President of Yemen serves as the commander-in-chief. Currently, the presidency and supreme command of the armed forces is disputed between Rashad al-Alimi, Chairman of the PLC, and Mahdi al-Mashat, chairman of the SPC. Before the civil war, the united military was headquartered in the country's capital, Sana’a.

Already before 2014, the number of military personnel in Yemen was relatively high; in sum, Yemen had the second largest military force on the Arabian Peninsula after Saudi Arabia. In 2012, total active troops were estimated as follows: army, 66,700; navy, 7,000; and air force, 5,000. In September 2007, the government announced the reinstatement of compulsory military service. Yemen's defense budget, which in 2006 represented approximately 40 percent of the total government budget, is expected to remain high for the near term, as the military draft takes effect and internal security threats continue to escalate.