Ministry of National Defense (Algeria)

Ministry of National Defence
وزارة الدفاع الوطني
	Logo of the Ministry of National Defence
Agency overview
Formed	1958: Ministry of Armed Forces; 1962: Ministry of National Defence;
Jurisdiction	Government of Algeria
Headquarters	Algiers, Algeria;
Employees	more than 400,000 employees (military, gendarmes, Republican Guards, agents, assimilated civilian personnel)
Annual budget	10,3 Billion $ (2013)
Ministers responsible	Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of the Republic, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Minister of National Defence; Saïd Chengriha, Army General, Deputy Minister of National Defence, Chief of Staff of the People's National Army; Mohamed Salah Benbicha, Secretary General of the Ministry of National Defence;
Website	https://www.mdn.dz/site_principal/accueil_fr.php

The Algerian Ministry of National Defence (in Arabic: وزارة الدفاع الوطني) is the Algerian governmental administrative structure responsible for military defence policy, the organization and permanent management of the Algerian armed forces.^[3]

Ministers of Defence

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Political party		Cabinet(s)	Ref.
No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Political party		Cabinet(s)	Ref.
1		Krim Belkacem (1922–1970)	19 September 1958	18 January 1960	1 year, 121 days		National Liberation Front	Provisional Government I
2		Houari Boumédiène (1932–1978)	27 September 1962	27 December 1978	16 years, 91 days		National Liberation Front	Bella I [fr]–II [fr]–III [fr] Boumédiène I [fr]–II [fr]–III [fr]–IV [fr]
3		Chadli Bendjedid (1929–2012)	8 March 1979	25 July 1990	11 years, 139 days		National Liberation Front	Abdelghani I [fr]–II [fr]–III [fr] Brahimi I [fr]–II [fr] Merbah [fr] Hamrouche [fr]
4		Khaled Nezzar (1937–2023)	25 July 1990	10 July 1993	2 years, 350 days			Hamrouche [fr] Ghozali I [fr]–II [fr] Abdesslam [fr]
5		Liamine Zéroual (1941–2026)	10 July 1993	27 April 1999	5 years, 291 days		Independent	Abdesslam [fr] Malek [fr] Sifi I [fr]–II [fr] Ouyahia I [fr]–II [fr] Hamdani [fr]
6		Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937–2021)	17 June 2002	2 April 2019	16 years, 289 days		National Liberation Front	Benflis III [fr] Ouyahia III [fr]–IV [fr]–V [fr] Belkhadem I [fr]–II [fr] Ouyahia VI [fr]–VII [fr]–VIII [fr]–IX [fr] Sellal I [fr]–II [fr]–III [fr]–IV [fr] Tebboune [fr] Ouyahia X [fr] Bedoui [fr]
—		Army corps general Ahmed Gaid Salah (1940–2019) acting	2 April 2019	19 December 2019	261 days		Independent	Bedoui [fr]
7		Abdelmadjid Tebboune (born 1945)	19 December 2019	Incumbent	16 years, 289 days		Independent	Bedoui [fr] Djerad I [fr]–II [fr]–III [fr] Benabderrahmane I [fr]–II [fr]–III [fr] Larbaoui I [fr]–II [fr] Ghrieb [fr]