Despite receiving windfalls in funding from the U.S. and Western nations over the last two decades, the Lebanese Army is too weak to stand up to the terrorist group Hezbollah, further straining an already conflict-ridden country, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Hezbollah has been one of the main actors stirring up chaos in the Middle East over the last year, launching routine attacks against Israel and raising threats against U.S. forces in the region. Lebanon’s armed forces are separate from Hezbollah and have failed to contain the terrorist group, even after receiving more than $3 billion in funding from the U.S. and West since 2006, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“It is one of the weakest armies in the Middle East,” Amal Saad, a political analyst at Cardiff University, told the WSJ. “That is part of the reason Hezbollah emerged in the 1980s — the Lebanese army wasn’t able to stand up to Israel.” Saad was referencing an Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982; the Lebanese army stands in opposition to Israel.
Part of the problem is that the Lebanese army likely has less manpower than Hezbollah. There are only approximately 60,000 active personnel in the armed forces, while Hezbollah’s former leader claimed that the terrorist group had close to 100,000 fighters. This number has been disputed, however, with some estimates putting the number lower.
Even so, the Lebanese army also doesn’t have critical air defense systems, lacks high-grade missile capabilities and only has five fighter jets in the entire fleet, according to the WSJ. Hezbollah has access to tens of thousands of rockets and drones, though some of that arsenal has been destroyed by Israeli forces in recent months. […]
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