Military History | 1982 First Lebanon War
Conflict in Lebanon (1975-2001)

I'm primarily interested in Operation Peace for Galilee (1982-84) but I'll be collecting notes on the entire Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) and Israeli occupation (1982-2001).

Flags: Israel, Lebanon, Syria

This period is interesting to me because fter many years of warfare depending almost exclusively on Armour the Israelis and their foes reverted to more infantry focused tactics - partially because the infantry anti-tank weapons had become quite effective and partly because of the nature of the terrain being fought over (urban and mountains)

The War in Lebanon can be divided into these periods (Hiro, 1993):

Date Phase
Apr 1975 - May 1976 Ascendancy of the reformist alliance
Jun 1976 - Feb 1978 Syrian intervention and hegemony
Mar - Oct 1978 First Israeli invasion (Operation Litani) and aftermath
Nov 1978 - May 1982 Consolidation of the Christian Mini-state
Jun 1982 - Feb 1984 Second Israeli invasion (Operation Peace for Galilee) and aftermath
Mar 1984 - Jan 1986 Return to Syrian hegemony
Feb 1986 - Sep 1988 Limits of Syrian power
Oct 1988 - Sep 1989 War of Liberation, Aoun Style
Oct 1989 - Oct 1990 The Taif Accord, a trigger for Inter-Christian conflict
Nov 1990 - May 2001 Syria ascendant

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