
The Yemeni Army is the ground force of the Armed Forces of Yemen. The army was estimated to have 66,700 men in 2012. An elite division of the Army, the Yemeni Republican Guard, was founded by President Ali Abdullah Saleh before his overthrow in 2011-12.
Since the beginning of the Yemeni Civil War in March 2015, it has been split between those loyal to President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and those that sided with the Houthis and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.