The Lebanese Forces – LF, also known as Ouwet for short or Forces Libanaises in French, was the main Lebanese Christian faction during the Lebanese Civil War. Resembling the Lebanese Front, which was
LF Supreme Commander Samir Geagea (center) with Dany Chamoun of the NLP (left) and Leila Hawi (right), east Beirut, late 1980s.
An ex-Lebanese Forces militia APR-40/RO-40 128mm 6-tube multiple rocket launcher mounted on a DAC chassis on static display at the Beyt ha-Totchan Museum, Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel.
Two Lebanese Forces militiamen wearing Israeli olive drab Uniform "B" fatigues and IDF "Old style" fatigue caps assist in the evacuation of foreign nationals at the port of Jounieh, June 24, 1982.
Lebanese Forces Czechoslovak Vz 60 "Salamander" (Mlok) pattern.
Bachir Pierre Gemayel was a Lebanese militia commander who led the Lebanese Forces, the military wing of the Kataeb Party, in the Lebanese Civil War and was elected President of Lebanon in 1982.
Lebanese Forces (militia)
…groups, the largest of which was the Kataeb Regulatory Forces. It was mainly staffed by Maronites and Christians of other denominations loyal to Bachir Gemayel, and fought against the Lebanese National Movement, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Syrian Armed Forces among others. The group gained…
Bachir Gemayel as a child.
Gemayel with his father Pierre.
Gemayel with Kataeb Regulatory Forces militiamen.
Bachir Gemayel with his father Pierre Gemayel at the Kataeb anniversary event in 1977