Draft:People's Defense Forces (South Yemen)
| People's Defense Forces | |
|---|---|
| قوات الدفاع الشعبية | |
.svg) Coat of arms of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen | |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Disbanded | 1994 |
| Service branches | People's Army South Yemeni Air Force South Yemeni Navy People's Militia |
| Headquarters | Aden |
| Personnel | |
| Active personnel | 27,500 (1985)[1] |
| Industry | |
| Foreign suppliers |  Soviet Union East Germany Cuba Libyan Arab Jamahiriya |
| Related articles | |
| History | Military history of Yemen Aden Emergency Corrective Move Al-Wadiah War First Yemenite War Ethiopian Civil War Lebanese Civil War Ogaden War Second Yemenite War South Yemeni crisis Yemeni civil war (1994) |
| Ranks | Military ranks of South Yemen |
The People's Defense Forces (Arabic: قوات الدفاع الشعبية) were the armed forces of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (also known as South Yemen).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Nyrop, Richard (June 1985). The Yemens country studies. Foreign Area Studies, The American University. p. 306.
- ^ Barany, Zoltan (2016). Yemen’s Armies from Ottoman Rule to Unification (Report). Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). pp. 6–14.