Aden Emergency

Aden Emergency
	Part of the Cold War, the Arab Cold War, and the decolonization of Asia
	; The location of the Aden Protectorate
Date	14 October 1963 – 30 November 1967; (4 years, 1 month, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Location	Western and Eastern Protectorates, Aden Protectorate, Middle East
Result	Yemeni NLF victory British withdrawal; Independence of South Yemen;
Belligerents
United Kingdom Federation of South Arabia; Protectorate of South Arabia;	NLF; FLOSY; Supported by:; United Arab Republic; Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Harold Wilson; Michael Le Fanu; Michael Beetham; Colin Campbell Mitchell	Qahtan al-Shaabi; Abdullah al-Asnag; Gamal Abdel Nasser; Nikita Khrushchev; Leonid Brezhnev
Strength
30,000 at peak; (3,500 in November 1967); 15,000 federal troops	Unknown
Casualties and losses
British Army:; 90–92 killed; 510 wounded; Federal Regular Army:; 17 killed; 58 wounded	382 killed; 1,714 wounded
	Total: 2,096 casualties

The Aden Emergency, also known as the 14 October Revolution (Arabic: ثورة 14 أكتوبر, romanized: Thawra 14 ʾUktūbar, lit. '14th October Revolution') or as the Radfan Uprising, was an armed rebellion by the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) against the Federation of South Arabia, a British Protectorate of the United Kingdom, which led to the proclamation of the People's Republic of South Yemen.

Partly inspired by Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arab nationalism, it began on 14 October 1963 with the throwing of a grenade at a gathering of British officials at Aden Airport. A state of emergency was then declared in the British Crown colony of Aden and its hinterland, the Aden Protectorate. The emergency escalated in 1967 and hastened the end of British rule in the territory which had begun in 1839.

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