Lebanese Forces vs Hezbollah: Strategies Compared
ملخص
In r/Lebanon, this announcement compares the Lebanese Forces and Hezbollah, covering their origins, funding and training, defensive and offensive tactics, military bases, and leadership periods. It offers historical details for community discussion about how the groups’ strategies and development differed.
Lebanese front and Lebanese forces Vs Hezbollah
Upon creation:
LF weapons: Hunting weapons and few mid rifles for few months- later to be joined by Christians LAF and to be armed and trained by Israel in late 1976 and ended in 1982 due to political conflicts.
Hezbollah: Funded, trained and armed by Iran in late 70s until now and to be officially created in 1982
Defensive strategy:
LF relied on strategic points including high grounds to secure borders of their region.
Hezbollah relies on tunnels by ambushing the enemy.
Offensive strategy:
LF push an enemy point and secure it to extend their authorial region. Heavy weapons used: Artilleries
Hezbollah: Does not push points, rather relies on defensive strategy by ambushing the enemy and attack enemy territories to increase pressure. Heavy weapons used: Short-Mid range missiles.
Military bases:
LF created more than 100 military bases during the civil war fairly distant from civilians
Hezbollah never used bases, officers and soldiers lives within civilians.
Leadership figures:
Bachir Gemayel : 1976-1982 as LF First Commander, assassinated in 14 September 1982 in an explosion during a meeting in the Kataeb building in Achrafieh
Hassan Nasrallah: 1992-2024 as Secretary General assassinated in 2024 in an underground bunker in Beirut Suburban.
Readers have the right to conclude whatever they want from these facts. Cheers
Post Author: /u/Dramafree770
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