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The Army of Free Lebanon – AFL (Шаблон:Lang-ar), also known variously as the "Colonel Barakat's Army" (Шаблон:Lang-ar) or Armée du Liban Libre (ALL) and Armée du Colonel Barakat in French, was a predominantly Christian splinter faction of the Lebanese Army that came to play a major role in the 1975–77 phase of the Lebanese Civil War.

Emblem

Upon its formation, the AFL adopted as logo a rectangular (or square) red and blue 'flash' with a stylized white Lebanese cedar tree in the middle, which was hastily painted on their armoured and transport vehicles; sometimes the motto 'Free Lebanon' (Arabic: لبنان الحر |Lubnan al-Horr) written in Arabic script was painted alongside the flash on the hull and turret of the tanks. In alternative, a greenish-yellow stencil, bearing the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) coat-of-arms was also applied.Шаблон:Sfn

Origins

The AFL began to be established on January 23, 1976, in Beirut by Lebanese Colonel Antoine Barakat who declared loyalty to the then President of Lebanon Suleiman Frangieh.Шаблон:Sfn[1] A Maronite from Frangieh's hometown Zgharta, Barakat rose with the troops of the Beirut Command (about 700 soldiers)[2] in response for Lieutenant Ahmed Al-Khatib's rebellion two days earlier at the head of the breakaway Lebanese Arab Army (LAA).[3]Шаблон:Sfn[4] Another officer, the head of Jounieh garrison Major Fouad Malek,[1] supported the Barakat-led faction, as did Major Saad Haddad the commander of the Marjayoun garrison in southern Lebanon.[5]Шаблон:Sfn[1] These three formations where eventually integrated into the "Army of Free Lebanon", whose creation was formally announced on March 13, 1976, by Col. Barakat at the Shukri Ghanem Barracks in the Fayadieh district of East Beirut.[6]

Structure

Field organization

Headquartered at Shukri Ghanem Barracks, a major military facility situated at Fayadieh in the vicinity of the Ministry of Defense complex at Yarze,Шаблон:Sfn the AFL numbered some 3,000 uniformed regulars by 1978, mostly Christian Maronites and Greek-Catholics.[7] Like the LAA, the AFL also maintained a flexible structure unlike the old regular Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), with the bulk of the force comprising some 1,500-2,000 soldiers[2] from different Army units assembled into eight independent mixed combat groups (French: Groupements) of roughly company or battalion size.[8] There was no set hierarchy, and rank and seniority meant little; performance in the field and political motivation propelled young Army officers – mostly Lieutenants – into leadership positions within the AFL combat groups. By February 1978, they were structured as follows:

  • Group No 11 (French: Groupement numéro 11) – led by Captain Mounir Bejjani;
  • Group No 12 (French: Groupement numéro 12) – led by Lieutenants Michel Abou Ghanem and Louis Khoury;
  • Group No 14 (French: Groupement numéro 14) – led by Lt. Makhoul Hakmeh;
  • Group No 16 (French: Groupement numéro 16) – led by Lieutenants Abdallah Hadchiti and Ghazi Ghattas;[9]
  • Group No 18 (French: Groupement numéro 18) – led by Maj. Fouad Malek, later replaced by Lt. Wehbeh Katicha;[10]
  • Galerie Semaan Battalion – a mechanized unit, also led by Lt. Ghazi Ghattas;[11]
  • A company-sized contingent (subsequently expanded to battalion strength) from the Army Para-commando regiment (Arabic: فوج المغاوير transliteration Fauj al-Maghaweer) led by Captain Samir el-Achkar.[12]

All these units were permanently allocated at Fayadieh, serving under Col. Barakat's direct orders. Outside Beirut, a 200-strong battalion designated the "Akkar Brigade" (Arabic: لواء عكار | Liwa' el-Akkar), led by Lt. Khalil Nader[13] was stationed in the Akkar District of northern Lebanon. A 500-strong battalion under the title "Army of Lebanon" (Arabic: جيش لبنان | Jayish Lubnan) was based at the Raymond el-Hayek Barracks in Sarba, north of Jounieh[2] headed by Maj. Malek,[1] whilst another battalion of 700 men led by Maj. Haddad and designated the "Marjayoun–Qlaiaa Formation" (Arabic: تكوين مرجعيون - قليعة | Takwin Marjayoun – Qlaiaa), was stationed at Marjayoun Barracks.[5]Шаблон:Sfn[1][14]

List of AFL commanders

Other AFL personnel

Weapons and equipment

The AFL was equipped largely from stocks drawn from Lebanese Army reserves, with weapons taken directly from Army barracks and depots or channeled via the Christian rightist militias of the Lebanese Front.

Small-arms

AFL infantry units were issued FN FAL,[15][16] CETME Model C[16] and M16A1 assault rifles;[12][17][16] FN MAG and M60 light machine guns were used as squad weapons, with heavier Browning M1919A4 .30 Cal and Browning M2HB .50 Cal machine guns being employed as platoon and company weapons. Officers and NCOs received FN P35 and MAB PA-15 pistols. Grenade launchers and portable anti-tank weapons consisted of Belgian RL-83 Blindicide,[11] M72 LAW and Soviet RPG-7 anti-tank rocket launchers,[12] whilst crew-served and indirect fire weapons comprised M2 60mm mortars, M30 4.2 inch (106.7mm) mortars[18] and 120-PM-38 (M-1938) 120mm heavy mortars, plus B-10 82mm and M40A1 106mm recoilless rifles.[19]

Armoured and transport vehicles

Each combat group or fraction fielded conventional armour, infantry and artillery sub-units, provided with Panhard AML-90[20][21]Шаблон:Sfn and 33 Staghound Mk.III armoured cars,[22][23] AMX-13[12][24] and M41A3 Walker Bulldog[25] light tanks, four M42A1 Duster SPAAGs,[12] plus tracked M113 and wheeled Panhard M3 VTT armored personnel carriers.[19][26][14][27]Шаблон:Sfn

For logistical support, Col. Barakat's troops relied on US Willys M38A1 MD jeeps (or its civilian version, the Jeep CJ-5), US M151A2 jeeps,Шаблон:Sfn US Kaiser M715 jeeps, Jeep Gladiator J20 pickup trucks,[28][29] Chevrolet C-10/C-15 Cheyenne light pickup trucks, and British Land-Rover Mk IIA-III light pickups,Шаблон:Sfn plus Chevrolet C-50 medium-duty, Dodge F600 medium-duty, Saviem SM8 TRM4000 4x4, Berliet GBC 8KT 6x6, British Bedford RL lorries, Soviet KrAZ 255 6x6,[30][31] GMC C7500 heavy-duty trucks and US M35A1 and M35A2 2½-ton 6x6 cargo trucks. These liaison and transport vehicles were also employed as gun trucks (a.k.a. technicals) in the direct fire support role on AFL ground operations, armed with heavy machine guns (HMGs), recoilless rifles and anti-aircraft autocannons.Шаблон:Sfn[32] Artillery units relied on military trucks and M5A1 artillery tractors to tow their field guns and howitzers.[33]

Artillery

Their artillery formations fielded British QF Mk III 25-Pounder field guns, Soviet M-30 122mm (M-1938) Howitzers and French Mle 1950 BF-50 155mm howitzers.[12][14] Six British Bofors 40mm L/60 anti-aircraft guns,[32] six Yugoslav Zastava M55 20mm triple-barreled autocannons,Шаблон:Sfn Hispano-Suiza HS.661 30mm single-barreled AA autocannons,[34] and 24 Soviet ZU-23-2 23mm twin-barreled AA autocannons[12] were also employed in the direct fire supporting role.[19]

The AFL in the Lebanese civil war 1976-78

Closely allied with the Christian rightist militias of the Lebanese Front,[1] the AFL battled the leftist Lebanese National Movement (LNM) militias, the LAA and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) guerrilla factions at Beirut, but also fought in northern Lebanon. On March 5, 1976, some 200 Christian AFL soldiers led by Lt. Khalil Nader – who entitled themselves the "Lebanese Liberation Army" (LLA), and later became the "Akkar Brigade"[13] – from the Jounieh garrison departed without permission from their commanding Officer to their home towns of Al-Qoubaiyat and Andaket in the Akkar District of Northern Lebanon, which were being threatened by LAA attacks and artillery bombardments.[35][36][37][38]

On March 13 at Beirut, the AFL units from the Shukri Ghanem Barracks in Fayadieh under Col. Barakat clashed with the Officer cadets of the adjoining Military Academy, whose Commander supported Brigadier general Aziz El-Ahdab's failed coup attempt against President Frangieh,Шаблон:Sfn despite the fact that some officers from the AFL (Fouad Malek, Wehbeh Katicha, and Ghazi Ghattas) had signed a petition pledging their support to Gen. Ahdab's initiative.[39][40] Later on March 25, Col. Barakat's troops bolstered the hard-pressed Republican Guard battalion and Marada Brigade militiamen loyal to President Frangieh in defending the Presidential Palace at Baabda from a two-pronged combined LNM-Lebanese Arab Army (LAA) ground assault amid intense shelling, though prior to the attack the President had decamped to the safety of Zouk Mikael, near Jounieh, and later to Kfour in the Keserwan District.[41][42][43] They also provided armour and artillery support to the Christian militias on the closing stages of the Battle of the Hotels,[44] during which an artillery barrage fired by a unit under Barakat's command struck the campus of the American University of Beirut at Rue Bliss in the neighboring Ras Beirut district, causing a number of casualties among the students.Шаблон:Citation needed

On late March–early April 1976 the AFL, aided by the Internal Security Forces (ISF), fought off successfully an attempt by the LAA and the Druze Popular Liberation Forces (PLF) militia to raid their own Headquarters at the Shukri Ghanem Barracks complex in the Fayadieh district of East Beirut.[45][46] Under the command of Maj. Fouad Malek, AFL units resumed the same roles later in the sieges of the PLO-held Palestinian refugee camps of Jisr el-Basha and Tel al-Zaatar at East Beirut between June and August 1976.[47][48]

During the Hundred Days' War in early February 1978, the AFL found itself besieged and bombarded by the Syrian Army in their Fayadieh barracks, though they later helped the NLP Tigers and the newly constituted Lebanese Forces' Command in driving the Syrians out from East Beirut.[49]

Disbandment

In March 1977, the newly elected President of Lebanon Elias Sarkis began slowly to reorganize the battered Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) structure, which had split into four (or six, according to other sources) sectarian factions.[50][51] The first fraction of the AFL to be re-integrated into the official battle order of the re-organized Lebanese Army in June 1977 was the Jounieh garrison, whose commander Fouad Malek was promoted to colonel and sent to the École de Guerre in Paris, where he deserted in 1978 to become head of the Lebanese Forces (LF) official representation at the French Capital the following year.[52][47] In March 1978 at Beirut, Col. Barakat handed over the Fayadieh barracks back to the official authorities, thus effectively signalling the disbandment of the AFL and the return of his troops to the LAF structure. Surprisingly, instead of being court-marshalled for insubordination, Antoine Barakat was promoted to brigadier general and appointed as Military Attaché to the Embassy of Lebanon in Washington, D.C., where he retired.Шаблон:Sfn Nearly all the remaining AFL combat group commanders' were rapidly re-integrated into the LAF without receiving any punishment or sanction, which enabled them to pursue their military careers unimpeded – Lt. Makhoul Hakmeh eventually rose to the rank of colonel and went to serve with General Michel Aoun as commander of the 10th Airmobile Brigade during the Elimination War in January–October 1990.[53]

One notable exception was Captain Samir el-Achkar and his commando battalion (Arabic: Maghaweer), who contested the re-integration process. Accused on 23 February 1978 by Colonel Sami el-Khatib, the commander of the Arab Deterrent Force (ADF), of being the instigator of the incident that sparked the Hundred Days' War, Capt. el-Achkar refused to be put on trial by a military court on charges of desertion and treason, rebelling a few days later with his troops by establishing the Lebanese Army Revolutionary Command (LARC), another dissident faction of the Lebanese Army closely aligned with the Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF) militia led by Bashir Gemayel. The crisis came to an abrupt end on 1 November that year, when the LAF Command ordered a raid by a 300-strong commando detachment from the Counter-sabotage regiment (Arabic: Moukafaha) under the command of Captain Michel Harrouk and Lieutenants Maroun Khreich and Kozhayya Chamoun on the LARC headquarters at Mtaileb in the Matn District, which resulted in the wounding and subsequent death of Capt. Samir el-Achkar, followed by the full re-incorporation of his men into the official Para-commando Regiment's own structure.[54]

A different fate however, awaited the ex-AFL troops of the Marjayoun garrison in the south. By late 1976, pressure from PLO and LNM-LAA militias finally forced Major Saad Haddad to evacuate the town and withdraw unopposed with his battalion to the village of Qlaiaa, close to the border with Israel. Here Maj. Haddad and his men placed themselves under the protection of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF),[1] eventually providing the cadre – after merging with local Christian, Shia Muslim and Druze militias, gathered since October 21 into the informal "Army for the Defense of South Lebanon" or ADSL (French: Armée de Défense du Liban-Sud or ADLS)[55] – of the so-called "Free Lebanese Army" (FLA), later to become known as the South Lebanon Army (SLA).[56]

See also

Notes

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References

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  • Alain Menargues, Les Secrets de la guerre du Liban: Du coup d'état de Béchir Gémayel aux massacres des camps palestiniens, Albin Michel, Paris 2004. Шаблон:ISBN (in French)
  • Beate Hamizrachi, The Emergence of South Lebanon Security Belt, Praeger Publishers Inc., New York 1984. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Chris McNab, 20th Century Military Uniforms (2nd ed.), Grange Books, Kent 2002. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Edgar O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon, 1975–92, Palgrave Macmillan, London 1998. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Éric Micheletti and Yves Debay, Liban – dix jours aux cœur des combats, RAIDS Magazine No. 41, October 1989, Histoire & Collections, Paris. Шаблон:ISSN (in French)
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  • Itamar Rabinovich, The war for Lebanon, 1970-1985, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London 1989 (revised edition). Шаблон:ISBN – [1]
  • Joseph A. Kechichian, The Lebanese Army: Capabilities and Challenges in the 1980s, Conflict Quarterly, Winter 1985.
  • Joseph Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985), Lulu.com, Beyrouth 2012. Шаблон:ISBN (in French) – [2]
  • Шаблон:Cite book
  • N.R. Jenzen-Jones & Damien Spleeters, Identifying & Tracing the FN Herstal FAL Rifle: Documenting signs of diversion in Syria and beyond, Armament Research Services Pty. Ltd., Australia, August 2015. Шаблон:ISBN – [3]
  • Oren Barak, The Lebanese Army – A National institution in a divided society, State University of New York Press, Albany 2009. Шаблон:ISBN – [4]
  • Paul Jureidini, R. D. McLaurin, and James Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas, 1975-1978, Aberdeen, MD: U.S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Technical Memorandum 11–79, June 1979.
  • Philipe Naud, La Guerre Civile Libanaise - 1re partie: 1975-1978, Steelmasters Magazine No. 113, August–September 2012, Histoire & Collections, Paris, pp. 8–16. Шаблон:ISSN
  • Rex Brynen, Sanctuary and Survival: the PLO in Lebanon, Boulder: Westview Press, Oxford 1990. Шаблон:ISBN – [5]
  • Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, London: Oxford University Press, (3rd ed. 2001). Шаблон:ISBN – [6]
  • Samer Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon, Beirut: Elite Group, 2003. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Samer Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon 1975-1981, Trebia Publishing, Chyah 2012. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Steven J. Zaloga, Armour of the Middle East Wars 1948-78, Vanguard series 19, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1981. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Simon Dunstan, Panhard Armoured Car: 1961 Onwards (AML 60, AML 90, Eland), Enthusiasts' Manual, Haynes Publishing UK, Somerset 2019. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Thomas Collelo (ed.), Lebanon: a country study, Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, Headquarters, Department of the Army (DA Pam 550–24), Washington D.C., December 1987 (Third edition 1989). – [7]
  • Tony Badran (Barry Rubin ed.), Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict, and Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2010. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Ludovic Fortin, T17E1 Staghound Armored Car – Le char sur roues, Trucks & Tracks Magazine No. 5, December 2007–January 2008, Caraktère, Marseille, pp. 48–67. Шаблон:ISSN (in French)
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Further reading

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  • Denise Ammoun, Histoire du Liban contemporain: Tome 2 1943-1990, Éditions Fayard, Paris 2005. Шаблон:ISBN (in French) – [8]
  • Fawwaz Traboulsi, A History of Modern Lebanon: Second Edition, Pluto Press, London 2012. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Leila Haoui Zod, William Haoui, temoin et martyr, Mémoire DEA, Faculté d'Histoire, Université Saint Esprit, Kaslik, Liban 2004. (in French)
  • Jean Sarkis, Histoire de la guerre du Liban, Presses Universitaires de France - PUF, Paris 1993. Шаблон:ISBN (in French)
  • Samir Kassir, La Guerre du Liban: De la dissension nationale au conflit régional, Éditions Karthala/CERMOC, Paris 1994. Шаблон:ISBN (in French)
  • Marius Deeb, The Lebanese Civil War, Praeger Publishers Inc., New York 1980. Шаблон:ISBN
  • William W. Harris, Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions, Princeton Series on the Middle East, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton 1997. Шаблон:ISBN

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 Barak, The Lebanese Army – A National institution in a divided society (2009), p. 104.
  2. ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Introduction, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Rabinovich, The war for Lebanon (1989), p. 72.
  4. ↑ Barak, The Lebanese Army – A National institution in a divided society (2009), pp. 100-101.
  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 Kechichian, The Lebanese Army: Capabilities and Challenges in the 1980s (1985), p. 20.
  6. ↑ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), p. 29.
  7. ↑ Collelo, Lebanon: a country study (1989), p. 239.
  8. ↑ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), pp. 55-57.
  9. ↑ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), p. 58.
  10. ↑ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), p. 57.
  11. ↑ 11,0 11,1 Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 16.
  12. ↑ 12,0 12,1 12,2 12,3 12,4 12,5 12,6 Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), p. 21.
  13. ↑ 13,0 13,1 Chamussy (René) – Chronique d’une guerre: Le Liban 1975-1977 – éd. Desclée – 1978
  14. ↑ 14,0 14,1 14,2 Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), pp. 29-30.
  15. ↑ Jenzen-Jones & Spleeters, Identifying & Tracing the FN Herstal FAL Rifle: Documenting signs of diversion in Syria and beyond (2015), pp. 20-21.
  16. ↑ 16,0 16,1 16,2 Шаблон:Cite magazine
  17. ↑ McNab, 20th Century Military Uniforms (2002), p. 174.
  18. ↑ Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 21.
  19. ↑ 19,0 19,1 19,2 Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), appendix A, table A-6.
  20. ↑ Hamizrachi, The Emergence of South Lebanon Security Belt (1984), pp. 55-89.
  21. ↑ Badran, Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict, and Crisis (2010), pp. 50-52.
  22. ↑ Fortin, T17E1 Staghound Armored Car – Le char sur roues, Trucks & Tracks Magazine (2007–2008), pp. 62–63; 65.
  23. ↑ Colonel Barakat's Army Staghound Mk.III armoured car near Binayit el-Béton, East Beirut, March 1976.
  24. ↑ AMX-13 light tank of the Army of Free Lebanon at the siege of Tel al-Zaatar, East Beirut, July 1976.
  25. ↑ M41 Walker Bulldog tank of the Army of Free Lebanon in the streets of the Aswek (the old city center of Beirut), c.1976.
  26. ↑ Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 57.
  27. ↑ Dunstan, Panhard Armoured Car: 1961 Onwards (AML 60, AML 90, Eland), Enthusiasts' Manual (2019), p. 154.
  28. ↑ Kassis, 30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2003), p. 6.
  29. ↑ El-Assad, Civil Wars Volume 1: The Gun Trucks (2008), p. 19.
  30. ↑ Naud, La Guerre Civile Libanaise - 1re partie: 1975–1978, Steelmasters Magazine (2012), p. 9.
  31. ↑ Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 29.
  32. ↑ 32,0 32,1 1/35 scale model photos of a Lebanese Special Forces AA QF Bofors 40mm gun mounted on a M35A2 Gun Truck.
  33. ↑ Kassis, Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon (2012), p. 25.
  34. ↑ Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix A, table A-10.
  35. ↑ Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix B, B-16.
  36. ↑ O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon (1998), p. 45.
  37. ↑ Menargues, Les Secrets de la guerre du Liban (2004), p. 37.
  38. ↑ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), p. 23.
  39. ↑ Barak, The Lebanese Army – A National institution in a divided society (2009), p. 103.
  40. ↑ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), pp. 28-29.
  41. ↑ O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon (1998), pp. 46-47.
  42. ↑ Barak, The Lebanese Army – A National institution in a divided society (2009), p. 101.
  43. ↑ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), p. 30.
  44. ↑ O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon (1998), pp. 54; 56-57.
  45. ↑ Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), pp. 20-23.
  46. ↑ Barak, The Lebanese Army – A National institution in a divided society (2009), p. 115.
  47. ↑ 47,0 47,1 Gary C. Gambill and Ziad K. Abdelnour, Dossier: Fouad Malek, former Chief-of-Staff of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, Vol.4, No.11-12, November-December 2002.
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  50. ↑ O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon (1998), p. 63.
  51. ↑ Barak, The Lebanese Army – A National institution in a divided society (2009), p. 117.
  52. ↑ Micheletti and Debay, Les Forces Libanaises, RAIDS Magazine (1989), p. 34 (box).
  53. ↑ Micheletti and Debay, La 10e Brigade Heliportée, RAIDS Magazine (1989), p. 21 (box).
  54. ↑ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), pp. 61-63.
  55. ↑ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), p. 43.
  56. ↑ Chamussy (René) – Chronique d'une guerre: Le Liban 1975-1977 – éd. Desclée – 1978
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