Royal Saudi Land Forces Royal Saudi Air Force Royal Saudi Naval Forces Royal Saudi Air Defense Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force Saudi Arabian National Guard Saudi Arabian Royal Guard Saudi Arabian Border Guard Saudi Arabian Emergency Force Special Security Forces Special Security Unit
Headquarters
Riyadh
Leadership
Supreme Commander
King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Personnel
Military age
17[2]
Conscription
No[3]
Active personnel
480,700
Deployed personnel
11,200[7] (2015 est.)
Bahrain 14 March 2011[4][5] Yemen 26 March 2015[6] Djibouti 15 October 2015
Expenditures
Budget
US$48.5 billion (9th)[8]
Industry
Domestic suppliers
Royal City SAMIC SAMI PSATRI SAEC
Foreign suppliers
Australia Brazil Canada China Czech Republic France Germany Indonesia Italy Japan South Korea Netherlands Poland Russia Singapore South Africa Sweden Taiwan Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States
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History
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Top leaders
Ranks
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The Saudi Arabian Military Forces (Arabic: القوات العسكرية العربية السعوديةAl-Quwwat al-Askariyah Arabīyah as-Su’ūdiyah) (SAMF) is the umbrella term for all the military forces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Although militarized in nature, each is independent of the other in that they fall under the control of different ministries and/or chain of command. They include: the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia (under the Ministry of Defense), the Saudi Arabian National Guard (under the Ministry of National Guard), the Saudi Arabian Border Guard (under the Ministry of Interior), the Saudi Arabian Royal Guard (under the Presidency of the Royal Guard), the Special Operations Forces (under the Presidency of State Security), and the Special Security Unit (affiliated with the General Intelligence Presidency).
The King of Saudi Arabia is the supreme commander of all military forces. The current king is Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
^Sir James Norman Dalrymple Anderson. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Stacey International, 1983. p. 77.
^"The World Factbook". Langley, Virginia: Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
^"Middle East: Saudi Arabia". The World Factbook. Langley, Virginia: Central Intelligence Agency. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
^Felicia Schwartz; Hakim Almasmari; Asa Fitch (26 March 2015). "Saudi Arabia Launches Military Operations in Yemen". The Wall Street Journal.
^Henderson, Simon. "Bahrain's Crisis: Saudi Forces Intervene". Washington Institute. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
^"Saudi Arabia launches airstrikes in Yemen". CNN. 26 March 2015. Archived from the original on 26 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^Shrivastava, Sanskar (15 March 2011). "Saudi Arabian Troops Enter Bahrain, Bahrain Opposition Calls It War". The World Reporter. Archived from the original on 18 March 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
^International Institute for Strategic Studies (25 February 2021). The Military Balance 2021. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1032012278.
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