Ministry of Defence (Jordan)

The Ministry of Defence (Arabic: وزارة الدفاع الاردنية) of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a ministerial mandate in the Government of Jordan responsible for defence of Jordan. It had never been a separate ministerial entity, and since 1970, the Minister of Defence has been the Prime Minister.^[1][2]

Jordan
Ministry of Defence

Department overview
Formed	1939
Jurisdiction	Government of Jordan
Headquarters	Amman
Minister responsible	Jafar Hassan, Minister of Defence

Prime Minister Rashid Al-Madfai was the first to assume the defence mandate as Minister of Defence and Internal Security in the government of Tawfik Abu Al-Huda in 1939.^[3] A directive by the King in 2014 to reestablish the Ministry of Defence did not materialize.^[4]