The current Minister of Defense is Abdullah Ali Al-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah.

[1][2][3][4] On 1 July 1961, when the ministry was not established yet during Operation Vantage; the Kuwait Army was the de facto command leadership of the available armed forces since establishment and acted as official minister advising the Emir of Kuwait on course of action.

The Kuwait Army redesignated in 1953 was founded 13 years before the enacting of the Kuwait ministry, mainly by Field Marshal Sheikh Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah (youngest son of Mubarak Al-Sabah) in 1949.

The ministry has been headed by the following people since its inception in 1962: Saad Al-Abdullah Academy for Security Sciences which is in charge of training personnel of the Kuwait Police is named after him[5] The major function of the ministry is to implement the government's defence policy and to govern all branches of the Kuwait Armed Forces.

[14] The ministry publishes a monthly magazine called Homat Al Watan.