State List Defence minister Political affiliation Assumed office Afghanistan List Mullah Yaqoob (acting) Taliban 7 September 2021 Albania List Niko Peleshi Socialist Party of Albania 31 December 2020 Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune (also President ) National Liberation Front 19 December 2019 Andorra — Angola João Ernesto dos Santos Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola 2020 Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne [ 1] (also Prime Minister ) Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party Argentina List Luis Petri Radical Civic Union 10 December 2023 Armenia List Suren Papikyan Civil Contract 15 November 2021 Australia List Richard Marles Labor Party of Australia 1 June 2022 Austria List Klaudia Tanner Austrian People's Party 7 January 2020 Azerbaijan List Colonel General Zakir Hasanov New Azerbaijan Party 22 October 2013 Bahamas — Bahrain Major-General Abdullah bin Hassan Al-Nuaimi 4 December 2018 Bangladesh (Vacant) 5 August 2024 [ 2] Barbados Mia Mottley Barbados Labour Party 26 May 2018 Belarus List Viktor Khrenin Independent 20 January 2020 Belgium List Ludivine Dedonder Socialist Party 1 October 2020 Belize Florencio Marin, Jr. United Democratic Party 13 November 2020 Benin Alain Nouatin Independent 25 May 2021 Bhutan — Bolivia Edmundo Novillo Movement for Socialism 9 November 2020 Bosnia and Herzegovina List Zukan Helez Social Democratic Party 25 January 2023 Botswana List Shaw Kgathi Botswana Democratic Party 31 October 2014 Brazil List José Múcio Democratic Renewal Party 1 January 2023 Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah (also Sultan ) 7 September 1986 Bulgaria List Atanas Zapryanov Independent 9 April 2024 Burkina Faso Kassoum Coulibaly People's Movement for Progress 30 September 2022 Burundi Alain Tribert Mutabazi June 2020 Cambodia List General Tea Seiha Cambodian People's Party 22 August 2023 Cameroon Joseph Beti Assomo Cameroon People's Democratic Movement 2 October 2015 Canada List Bill Blair Liberal Party of Canada 26 July 2023 Cape Verde Luís Filipe Tavares 22 April 2016 Central African Republic Minister of the National Defense, Veterans, War Victims and Restructuring of the Army Claude Rameaux Bireau 2022 Chad Daoud Tchari Chile List Maya Fernández Socialist Party of Chile 11 March 2022 China List Dong Jun Chinese Communist Party 29 December 2023 Colombia List Iván Velásquez Gómez Independent 7 August 2022 Comoros — Republic of the Congo Charles Mondjo 25 September 2012 Democratic Republic of the Congo Alexandre Luba Ntambo 28 April 2012 Costa Rica [ nb 1] Michael Soto Rojas 9 May 2018 Ivory Coast Patrick Achi (acting) Rally of the Republicans 8 March 2021 Croatia List Ivan Anušić Cuba List Corps General Álvaro López Miera Communist Party of Cuba 15 April 2021 Cyprus List Vasilis Palmas 10 January 2023 Czech Republic List Jana Černochová Civic Democratic Party 17 December 2021 Denmark List Troels Lund Poulsen Venstre 22 August 2023 Djibouti Hassan Darar Houffaneh Dominica — Dominican Republic Luciano Díaz Morfa 16 August 2020 East Timor List Pedro Klamar Fuik [ de ] Independent 1 July 2023 Ecuador Luis Hernández Peñaherrera 18 October 2021 Egypt List Lieutenant General Mohamed Ahmed Zaki Independent 14 June 2018 El Salvador List René Merino Monroy Independent 1 June 2019 Equatorial Guinea Victoriano Bibang Nsue Okomo Eritrea Filipos Woldeyohannes 2014 Estonia List Hanno Pevkur Estonian Reform Party 18 July 2022 Ethiopia Abraham Belay Prosperity Party 6 October 2021 Fiji Pio Tikoduadua NFP 24 December 2022 Finland List Antti Häkkänen National Coalition Party 20 June 2023 France List Sébastien Lecornu La République En Marche! 20 May 2022 Gabon Ernest Mpouho Epigat Gambia Sheikh Omar Faye Independent 22 August 2019 Georgia List Juansher Burchuladze Georgian Dream 22 February 2021 Germany List Boris Pistorius Social Democratic Party of Germany 19 January 2023 Ghana List Dominic Nitiwul New Patriotic Party February 2012 Greece List Nikos Dendias 27 June 2023 Grenada Dickon Mitchell (also Prime Minister ) National Democratic Congress 24 June 2022 Guatemala List Henry Saenz Ramos Guinea Aboubacar Sidiki Camara 20 August 2022 Guinea-Bissau Sandji Fati Guyana —[ clarification needed ] Haiti Minister of Defense Jean W.Dorneval Holy See Honduras José Manuel Zelaya Rosales [ es ] Hungary List Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky Independent 24 May 2022 Iceland [ nb 2] List Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir Independce 28 November 2021 India List Rajnath Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 31 May 2019 Indonesia List General (Honorary) Prabowo Subianto Gerindra
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Geraldine Janet George Libya List Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh (also Prime Minister ) Independent 15 March 2021 Liechtenstein — Lithuania List Arvydas Anušauskas Homeland Union 11 December 2020 Luxembourg List Yuriko Backes Democratic Party 17 November 2023 Madagascar Josoa Rakotoarijaona Malawi Harry Mkandawire Malawi Congress Party 31 January 2023 Malaysia List Mohamed Khaled Nordin Barisan Nasional (United Malays National Organisation ) 12 December 2023 Maldives Minister of Defence Mohamed Ghasson Maumoon Maldivian Democratic Party 17 November 2023 Mali Sadio Camara 11 June 2021 Malta Byron Camilleri Labor Party 15 January 2020 Marshall Islands — Mauritania Hanena Ould Sidi 7 August 2019 Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth (also Prime Minister ) Militant Socialist Movement Mexico List Luis Cresencio Sandoval 1 December 2018 Micronesia — Moldova List Anatolie Nosatîi Independent 6 August 2021 Monaco — Mongolia List Brigadier General Gürsediin Saikhanbayar Mongolian People's Party 8 July 2020 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