Algerian People's National Army

People's National Army (PNA)
People's National Army (PNA)
Arabic: الجيش الوطني الشعبي
	People's National Army emblem
Founded	1954 (as National Liberation Army)
Current form	1962
Service branches	Algerian Land Forces; Algerian National Navy; Algerian Air Force; Territorial Air Defence Forces; National Gendarmerie; Republican Guard
Headquarters	Algiers
Leadership
Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces	President Abdelmadjid Tebboune
Minister of National Defense	President Abdelmadjid Tebboune
Chief of Staff of the PNA and Deputy Minister of National Defence	Army General Saïd Chengriha
Personnel
Active personnel	130,000
Reserve personnel	150,000
Expenditure
Budget	DZD 3.208 trillion ($25 billion) (2026)
Industry
Domestic suppliers	Military Industry of Central Direction; SNVI ; ECMK-K; ENIM; BCL; ECM-R; SCAFSE
Foreign suppliers	China; Italy; United States; Germany; Russia
Related articles
History	Military history of Algeria; Algerian War of Independence; Sand War; Socialist Forces Front rebellion in Algeria; Six-Day War; Yom Kippur War; Western Sahara War; Algerian Civil War; Insurgency in the Maghreb ; ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
Ranks	Military ranks of Algeria

The People's National Army (PNA) (Arabic: الجيش الوطني الشعبي الجزائري, romanized: al-Jaysh al-Waṭanī al-Shaʿbī al-Jazāʾirī) is the military of the Algerian republic. It is the direct successor of the National Liberation Army (ALN), the armed wing of the nationalist National Liberation Front (FLN), which fought French colonial rule during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962).

The People's National Army include the Algerian Land Forces, the Algerian Air Force, the Navy, and the Algerian Air Defence Force. The antecedents of the army were the conventional military units formed in neighbouring Morocco and Tunisia during the war of independence from France.